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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
exciting tan area selfie
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
painfully honest well-lubricated ratface university
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
exciting tan area selfie
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
confused awkward station giraffe
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
exciting tan area selfie
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
confused awkward station giraffe
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Sooty liquid oxygen legend
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
glittery friendly grandma
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
curious sadistic therapy
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
garnet vibrant locale roommate
  01/30/21
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Gaped piazza
  01/30/21
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supple salmon kitchen
  01/30/21
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painfully honest well-lubricated ratface university
  01/30/21
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exciting tan area selfie
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
concupiscible bronze crackhouse pozpig
  01/30/21
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fragrant jade affirmative action house
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Copper filthy shrine
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Razzmatazz Disrespectful Hell
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
supple salmon kitchen
  01/30/21
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white indecent library
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Fishy Big Theatre Messiness
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
multi-colored market
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
maroon brunch
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
puce outnumbered ape public bath
  01/30/21
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exciting tan area selfie
  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: exciting tan area selfie

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...id#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: painfully honest well-lubricated ratface university

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...id#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: exciting tan area selfie

they could at least teach basic written objections under the federal rules. first-year biglaw attys are clueless about this stuff.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: confused awkward station giraffe

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...id#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: exciting tan area selfie

the point is that it provides billable hours which helps make a select few people rich

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: confused awkward station giraffe

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

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Sooty liquid oxygen legend

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...id#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: glittery friendly grandma

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: curious sadistic therapy

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: garnet vibrant locale roommate

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...id#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Gaped piazza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: supple salmon kitchen



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: painfully honest well-lubricated ratface university



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: exciting tan area selfie



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: concupiscible bronze crackhouse pozpig

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: fragrant jade affirmative action house



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Copper filthy shrine

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Disrespectful Hell



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: supple salmon kitchen

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...id#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: white indecent library



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Fishy Big Theatre Messiness

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: multi-colored market

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: maroon brunch

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...id#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: puce outnumbered ape public bath

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: exciting tan area selfie



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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...id#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...id#49782597)