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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
avocado space partner
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Wonderful House-broken Pozpig Dingle Berry
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
avocado space partner
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Vigorous cruise ship
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
avocado space partner
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Vigorous cruise ship
  01/30/21
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fragrant filthy fanboi police squad
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
beady-eyed self-centered trailer park
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
at-the-ready motley house doctorate
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
mewling corner
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Scarlet base
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bronze forum
  01/30/21
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contagious market dragon
  01/30/21
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Wonderful House-broken Pozpig Dingle Berry
  01/30/21
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avocado space partner
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Effete library
  01/30/21
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disrespectful faggot firefighter scourge upon the earth
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Nofapping Pisswyrm Weed Whacker
  01/30/21
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Sick impertinent shrine travel guidebook
  01/30/21
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fragrant filthy fanboi police squad
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
contagious market dragon
  01/30/21
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Swashbuckling Site
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
buck-toothed adventurous boistinker
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Black hideous jewess
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
high-end orange nibblets
  01/30/21
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fragrant filthy fanboi police squad
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Yellow sanctuary
  01/30/21
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avocado space partner
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Doobsian iridescent casino party of the first part
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Wine seedy station laser beams
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
sealclubber
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: avocado space partner

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: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are))



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Wonderful House-broken Pozpig Dingle Berry

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: avocado space partner

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...id#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Vigorous cruise ship

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: avocado space partner

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...id#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Vigorous cruise ship

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...id#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: fragrant filthy fanboi police squad



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: beady-eyed self-centered trailer park

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: at-the-ready motley house doctorate

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...id#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: mewling corner

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...id#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Scarlet base

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: bronze forum



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: contagious market dragon



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Wonderful House-broken Pozpig Dingle Berry



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: avocado space partner



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Effete library

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: disrespectful faggot firefighter scourge upon the earth



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Nofapping Pisswyrm Weed Whacker

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Sick impertinent shrine travel guidebook



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: fragrant filthy fanboi police squad



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: contagious market dragon

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: Swashbuckling Site



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: buck-toothed adventurous boistinker

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: Black hideous jewess

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: high-end orange nibblets

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: fragrant filthy fanboi police squad



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Yellow sanctuary

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: avocado space partner



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Doobsian iridescent casino party of the first part

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: Wine seedy station laser beams

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)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Sounds like we all had the same professor

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



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: sealclubber

"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...id#49839789)