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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
autistic sound barrier plaza
  01/30/21
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autistic sound barrier plaza
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Fuck yes
pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Concupiscible Skinny Woman Incel
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
autistic sound barrier plaza
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Buff blathering heaven personal credit line
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
autistic sound barrier plaza
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Grizzly friendly grandma home
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
sepia stimulating turdskin
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
fragrant senate digit ratio
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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Fighting community account dragon
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Awkward aphrodisiac stead
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Concupiscible Skinny Woman Incel
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autistic sound barrier plaza
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
sooty property
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Naked Idiotic Candlestick Maker
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Awkward aphrodisiac stead
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Lascivious potus
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Bossy Amethyst Area
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Stubborn cerebral chapel
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Ocher native
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pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
titillating cyan address alpha
  01/30/21
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autistic sound barrier plaza
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
aromatic massive lodge double fault
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
motley smoky ladyboy crackhouse
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza

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/en-en/#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2/en-en/#49839103)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder

Fuck yes

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Concupiscible Skinny Woman Incel

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/en-en/#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza

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/en-en/#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Buff blathering heaven personal credit line

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/en-en/#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza

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/en-en/#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Buff blathering heaven personal credit line

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/en-en/#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Grizzly friendly grandma home

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/en-en/#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: sepia stimulating turdskin

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/en-en/#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: fragrant senate digit ratio

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/en-en/#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: self-absorbed canary 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.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Fighting community account dragon



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Awkward aphrodisiac stead



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Concupiscible Skinny Woman Incel



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: sooty property

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Naked Idiotic Candlestick Maker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Thriller silver pit reading party

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Theater



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Awkward aphrodisiac stead

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/en-en/#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Lascivious potus



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Bossy Amethyst Area

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Stubborn cerebral chapel

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Ocher native

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/en-en/#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: titillating cyan address alpha

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: autistic sound barrier plaza



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: aromatic massive lodge double fault

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: motley smoky ladyboy crackhouse

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/en-en/#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: pale hairraiser meetinghouse mental disorder

Sounds like we all had the same professor

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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Orchid dingle berry pozpig

"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/en-en/#49839789)