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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
odious autistic boiling water becky
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Canary mildly autistic candlestick maker
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
odious autistic boiling water becky
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
soul-stirring sexy box office queen of the night
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
odious autistic boiling water becky
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
soul-stirring sexy box office queen of the night
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Contagious Maize Gaming Laptop Set
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Coral turdskin legend
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Puce Cracking Theater Stage
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Magical University
  01/30/21
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Plum concupiscible cruise ship ape
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motley sandwich athletic conference
  01/30/21
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Canary mildly autistic candlestick maker
  01/30/21
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odious autistic boiling water becky
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
curious violent point
  01/30/21
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Cobalt locale wrinkle
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Metal 180 Mental Disorder
  01/30/21
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Primrose Histrionic Location Hairy Legs
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
motley sandwich athletic conference
  01/30/21
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aphrodisiac dull boistinker sound barrier
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
lascivious sanctuary
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Umber church building tattoo
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Cream self-centered son of senegal
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
fishy electric furnace jap
  01/30/21
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odious autistic boiling water becky
  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: odious autistic boiling water becky

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: Canary mildly autistic candlestick maker

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: odious autistic boiling water becky

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: soul-stirring sexy box office queen of the night

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: odious autistic boiling water becky

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: soul-stirring sexy box office queen of the night

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Contagious Maize Gaming Laptop Set

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: Coral turdskin legend

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: Puce Cracking Theater Stage

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: Magical University

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: Plum concupiscible cruise ship ape



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: motley sandwich athletic conference



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Canary mildly autistic candlestick maker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: odious autistic boiling water becky



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: curious violent point

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: Cobalt locale wrinkle



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Metal 180 Mental Disorder

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: Primrose Histrionic Location Hairy Legs



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: motley sandwich athletic conference

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: aphrodisiac dull boistinker sound barrier



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: lascivious sanctuary

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: Umber church building tattoo

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: Cream self-centered son of senegal

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: fishy electric furnace jap

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: odious autistic boiling water becky



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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)