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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
stirring shivering site boltzmann
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Histrionic lay
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
stirring shivering site boltzmann
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
misanthropic people who are hurt
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
stirring shivering site boltzmann
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
misanthropic people who are hurt
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
maniacal frisky range gaping
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Embarrassed to the bone ivory bawdyhouse double fault
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Peach ungodly idiot mental disorder
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Tantric dragon
  01/30/21
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Painfully honest cobalt set gunner
  01/30/21
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Elite Lascivious Codepig
  01/30/21
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Histrionic lay
  01/30/21
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stirring shivering site boltzmann
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Cruel-hearted Cerise Cumskin Meetinghouse
  01/30/21
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drab french chef headpube
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Territorial knife resort
  01/30/21
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Maroon buck-toothed partner
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Elite Lascivious Codepig
  01/30/21
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bronze useless brakes
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
marvelous spot
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
chrome famous landscape painting mad cow disease
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
fragrant whorehouse electric furnace
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
judgmental plaza shitlib
  01/30/21
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stirring shivering site boltzmann
  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: stirring shivering site boltzmann

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: Histrionic lay

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: stirring shivering site boltzmann

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: misanthropic people who are hurt

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: stirring shivering site boltzmann

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: misanthropic people who are hurt

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: maniacal frisky range gaping

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: Embarrassed to the bone ivory bawdyhouse double fault

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: Peach ungodly idiot mental disorder

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: Tantric dragon

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: Painfully honest cobalt set gunner



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Elite Lascivious Codepig



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Histrionic lay



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: stirring shivering site boltzmann



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Cerise Cumskin Meetinghouse

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: drab french chef headpube



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Territorial knife resort

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: Maroon buck-toothed partner



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Elite Lascivious Codepig

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: bronze useless brakes



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: marvelous spot

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: chrome famous landscape painting mad cow disease

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: fragrant whorehouse electric furnace

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: judgmental plaza shitlib

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: stirring shivering site boltzmann



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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)