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why don't law schools teach pre-trial discovery?

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
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Fuck yes
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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Amethyst Chest-beating Party Of The First Part National
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
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been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
stirring snowy really tough guy
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
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i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
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Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
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I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
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TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
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Some teach it.
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Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
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i practically invented "e"-discovery
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I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
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  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
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"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button

is this because most law students would quit this profession while they are ahead if they knew a significant portion of their day-to-day jobs will involve this work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: glittery area travel guidebook

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Amethyst Chest-beating Party Of The First Part National

it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake packet of emails and then have you go through them generating objections and privilege logs? lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button

they could at least teach basic written objections under the federal rules. first-year biglaw attys are clueless about this stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: stirring snowy really tough guy

been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. of the thousands of written discovery objections ive dutifully copy and pasted into discovery responses, not one of them has ever been of any consequence. what is the point of this whole charade?

otherwise i do agree that it would be useful to teach law students. i used to stress about discovery responses as a first/second year bc i didn’t know wtf i was doing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button

the point is that it provides billable hours which helps make a select few people rich

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: stirring snowy really tough guy

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: glittery area travel guidebook



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Crimson Hyperventilating Box Office

Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like how business schools do "case studies"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: racy cobalt mood principal's office

yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, birthdate and social security numbers and then put it together with Exhibit tabs....wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Scarlet Painfully Honest Pisswyrm

Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black level settings aren't right, you'll be able to see text. Just use your pdf software's redaction function.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: elite plaza

I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm skill 4 week “boot camp” just like this actually. It would drill in real important shit to hit the ground running. 90% of it would be keeping them in an office organizing and responding to fake emails until 2 am every night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Rough-skinned round eye



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: fishy idiotic sanctuary death wish



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Amethyst Chest-beating Party Of The First Part National



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: purple aggressive juggernaut address

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: dashing hilarious parlour



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Hairraiser tripping hell ape

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: ungodly partner sweet tailpipe



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: glittery area travel guidebook



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: fishy idiotic sanctuary death wish

My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (electives). But yeah, they didn't teach doc review, lol. It was stuff like written discovery, depos, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Internet-worthy violent famous landscape painting main people



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: chocolate contagious sound barrier

TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Marvelous Feces Mediation

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: motley insane genital piercing

Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have any real experience with pretrial discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: glittery area travel guidebook



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Free-loading Passionate Hunting Ground Generalized Bond

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Zombie-like citrine factory reset button



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: thriller liquid oxygen stage

i practically invented "e"-discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#49782565)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Dead public bath

I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half the semester teaching us how to write the definition section of discovery requests to make sure we defined “documents” etc correctly. In practice those never apply because the requests pretty much just ask you to produce everything relevant about the accident or event and a judge would sanction you for not producing an email because the term document didn’t specifically include emails.

TLDR: my professor practiced law for 2 years, became a professor, and taught nothing of importance on discovery in the discovery class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: glittery area travel guidebook

Sounds like we all had the same professor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#49839788)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Walnut Fragrant Jewess Circlehead

"why don't law schools teach [topic]"?

guy who didn't go to law school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2id.#49839789)