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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Mustard Racy Piazza
  01/30/21
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Mustard Racy Piazza
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
Motley Lilac Box Office Jap
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
abnormal selfie
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Mustard Racy Piazza
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Twisted address
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Mustard Racy Piazza
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Twisted address
  01/30/21
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Motley Lilac Box Office Jap
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Bat shit crazy curious ape boistinker
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
At-the-ready shrine volcanic crater
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Apoplectic Theatre
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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  01/30/21
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Appetizing jet theater foreskin
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abnormal selfie
  01/30/21
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Mustard Racy Piazza
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Shivering Round Eye
  01/30/21
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Razzle Gaped Yarmulke
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
contagious newt headpube
  01/30/21
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Narrow-minded school cafeteria
  01/30/21
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Motley Lilac Box Office Jap
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Appetizing jet theater foreskin
  01/30/21
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puce startling tanning salon doctorate
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
misanthropic whorehouse
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Sadistic Claret Legend
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Passionate business firm hissy fit
  01/30/21
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Motley Lilac Box Office Jap
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Razzmatazz casino digit ratio
  01/30/21
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Mustard Racy Piazza
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Stimulating Public Bath Skinny Woman
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
umber vengeful nursing home
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
Motley Lilac Box Office Jap
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
Comical Location
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza

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=2"#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: Motley Lilac Box Office Jap

Fuck yes

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: abnormal selfie

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=2"#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza

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=2"#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Twisted address

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=2"#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza

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=2"#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Twisted address

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

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Motley Lilac Box Office Jap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy curious ape boistinker

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=2"#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: At-the-ready shrine volcanic crater

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=2"#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Apoplectic Theatre

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=2"#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Trip Double Fault Roast Beef

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=2"#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: soggy indigo cumskin chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#41856139)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Appetizing jet theater foreskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#41856143)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: abnormal selfie



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Shivering Round Eye

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Razzle Gaped Yarmulke



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: contagious newt headpube

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Narrow-minded school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#41856907)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Motley Lilac Box Office Jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#49782562)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Appetizing jet theater foreskin

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=2"#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: puce startling tanning salon doctorate



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: misanthropic whorehouse

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Sadistic Claret Legend

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Passionate business firm hissy fit

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=2"#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: Motley Lilac Box Office Jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#49782563)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Razzmatazz casino digit ratio

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Mustard Racy Piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2"#43938643)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Stimulating Public Bath Skinny Woman

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: umber vengeful nursing home

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=2"#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: Motley Lilac Box Office Jap

Sounds like we all had the same professor

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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Comical Location

"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=2"#49839789)