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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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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
pontificating shitlib
  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...
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the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
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Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
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  01/30/21
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and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
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  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
motley gaping
  01/30/21
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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  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Pink casino

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?

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: pontificating shitlib

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Pink casino

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: At-the-ready Titillating Liquid Oxygen

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Pink casino

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: At-the-ready Titillating Liquid Oxygen

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Exhilarant ungodly community account azn

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Charismatic Brunch Ladyboy

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: irradiated zippy locale

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Chrome indirect expression

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
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and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Harsh Bronze Market Dragon



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: vermilion lay keepsake machete

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: hyperventilating racy parlour

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac useless brakes cuck



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: motley gaping

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: maize whorehouse hunting ground

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: boyish newt

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

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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: bright rough-skinned theater stage rigor

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: George Jetson

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=2most#49782597)