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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
bat shit crazy state toaster
  01/30/21
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bat shit crazy state toaster
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
aromatic location affirmative action
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Dashing Hyperventilating Dopamine
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
bat shit crazy state toaster
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
racy property corn cake
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
bat shit crazy state toaster
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
racy property corn cake
  01/30/21
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aromatic location affirmative action
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Massive kitty scourge upon the earth
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Shaky goyim
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
ruby cruise ship feces
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
blue thriller half-breed
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henna digit ratio
  01/30/21
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silver stimulating forum ladyboy
  01/30/21
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Dashing Hyperventilating Dopamine
  01/30/21
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bat shit crazy state toaster
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
mint gas station shitlib
  01/30/21
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provocative bipolar senate
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
supple knife stock car
  01/30/21
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outnumbered trip nowag
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aromatic location affirmative action
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
silver stimulating forum ladyboy
  01/30/21
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Spectacular Weed Whacker
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Wine Comical Round Eye
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Vivacious Trump Supporter
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
concupiscible maniacal stain
  01/30/21
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aromatic location affirmative action
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
duck-like blathering hall
  01/30/21
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bat shit crazy state toaster
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
claret ratface
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Beady-eyed main people athletic conference
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
aromatic location affirmative action
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
saffron stage
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: bat shit crazy state toaster

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: bat shit crazy state toaster



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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: aromatic location affirmative action

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: Dashing Hyperventilating Dopamine

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: bat shit crazy state toaster

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: racy property corn cake

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: bat shit crazy state toaster

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: racy property corn cake

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: aromatic location affirmative action



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Massive kitty scourge upon the earth

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: Shaky goyim

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: ruby cruise ship feces

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: blue thriller half-breed

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: henna digit ratio



(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: silver stimulating forum ladyboy



(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: Dashing Hyperventilating Dopamine



(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: bat shit crazy state toaster



(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: mint gas station shitlib

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: provocative bipolar senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2:#41856569)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: supple knife stock car

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: outnumbered trip nowag



(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: aromatic location affirmative action



(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: silver stimulating forum ladyboy

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: Spectacular Weed Whacker



(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: Wine Comical Round Eye

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: Vivacious Trump Supporter

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: concupiscible maniacal stain

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: aromatic location affirmative action



(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: duck-like blathering hall

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: bat shit crazy state toaster



(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: claret ratface

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: Beady-eyed main people athletic conference

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: aromatic location affirmative action

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: saffron stage

"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)