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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Motley crimson friendly grandma
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
multi-colored locus philosopher-king
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Motley crimson friendly grandma
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Vigorous selfie
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Motley crimson friendly grandma
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Vigorous selfie
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
opaque hall
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Red domesticated dilemma private investor
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Saffron shivering pisswyrm
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
lemon irradiated mediation ticket booth
  01/30/21
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Avocado mood giraffe
  01/30/21
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Racy House Headpube
  01/30/21
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multi-colored locus philosopher-king
  01/30/21
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Motley crimson friendly grandma
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Soul-stirring patrolman native
  01/30/21
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Geriatric address boiling water
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Talking concupiscible gunner national security agency
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Adventurous athletic conference
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Racy House Headpube
  01/30/21
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Comical jet factory reset button theatre
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
brass splenetic market
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Passionate station bbw
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
elite charismatic corner halford
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Bateful Carnelian Parlor Cuckoldry
  01/30/21
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Motley crimson friendly grandma
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
t.rick o'treat panama
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
George Jetson
  03/31/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Motley crimson friendly grandma

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=2most#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: multi-colored locus philosopher-king

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=2most#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Motley crimson friendly grandma

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=2most#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Vigorous selfie

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=2most#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Motley crimson friendly grandma

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=2most#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Vigorous selfie

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

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: opaque hall

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=2most#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Red domesticated dilemma private investor

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=2most#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Saffron shivering 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=2most#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: lemon irradiated mediation ticket booth

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=2most#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Avocado mood giraffe



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Racy House Headpube



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: multi-colored locus philosopher-king



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Motley crimson friendly grandma



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Soul-stirring patrolman native

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Geriatric address boiling water



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Talking concupiscible gunner national security agency

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Adventurous athletic conference



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Racy House Headpube

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=2most#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Comical jet factory reset button theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2most#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: brass splenetic market

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Passionate station bbw

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: elite charismatic corner halford

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=2most#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Bateful Carnelian Parlor Cuckoldry

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Motley crimson friendly grandma



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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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)