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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Primrose public bath stain
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Unhinged Masturbator Degenerate
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Primrose public bath stain
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Free-loading base new version
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Primrose public bath stain
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Free-loading base new version
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
slippery indian lodge digit ratio
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Claret haunting ceo sneaky criminal
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Aqua deranged market
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
aphrodisiac orange striped hyena stage
  01/30/21
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flushed hell pozpig
  01/30/21
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mewling haunted graveyard
  01/30/21
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Unhinged Masturbator Degenerate
  01/30/21
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Primrose public bath stain
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Provocative Pungent Genital Piercing Property
  01/30/21
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Nighttime roast beef
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
aromatic khaki prole
  01/30/21
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Fragrant Carnelian Giraffe
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
mewling haunted graveyard
  01/30/21
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Brass bespoke shrine double fault
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Copper Idiotic Site Electric Furnace
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
180 dilemma doctorate
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Chartreuse Frozen Macaca
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Peach Titillating Useless Brakes Heaven
  01/30/21
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Primrose public bath stain
  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: Primrose public bath stain

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: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Unhinged Masturbator Degenerate

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: Primrose public bath stain

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: Free-loading base new version

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: Primrose public bath stain

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: Free-loading base new version

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: slippery indian lodge digit ratio

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: Claret haunting ceo sneaky criminal

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: Aqua deranged market

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: aphrodisiac orange striped hyena stage

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: flushed hell pozpig



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: mewling haunted graveyard



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Unhinged Masturbator Degenerate



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Primrose public bath stain



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Provocative Pungent Genital Piercing Property

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: Nighttime roast beef



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: aromatic khaki prole

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: Fragrant Carnelian Giraffe



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: mewling haunted graveyard

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: Brass bespoke shrine double fault



(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: Copper Idiotic Site Electric Furnace

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: 180 dilemma doctorate

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: Chartreuse Frozen Macaca

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Peach Titillating Useless Brakes Heaven

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: Primrose public bath stain



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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=2...#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=2...#49782597)