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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
costumed sapphire home
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Naked Athletic Conference
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
costumed sapphire home
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
swollen drab sweet tailpipe state
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
costumed sapphire home
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
swollen drab sweet tailpipe state
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Bearded Contagious Nursing Home
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
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  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Slate Abode Ladyboy
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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  01/30/21
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Stimulating Fortuitous Meteor
  01/30/21
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Brass Roast Beef Trump Supporter
  01/30/21
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Naked Athletic Conference
  01/30/21
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costumed sapphire home
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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  01/30/21
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arousing library
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Brass Roast Beef Trump Supporter
  01/30/21
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Lascivious public bath goyim
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
bossy hot sanctuary filthpig
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Hideous hairy legs
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
razzmatazz ruby chad locus
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
adventurous brunch
  01/30/21
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costumed sapphire home
  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: costumed sapphire home

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: Naked Athletic Conference

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: costumed sapphire home

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: swollen drab sweet tailpipe state

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: costumed sapphire home

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: swollen drab sweet tailpipe state

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
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Bearded Contagious Nursing Home

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: mahogany field gay wizard

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: Slate Abode Ladyboy

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: electric fear-inspiring ticket booth

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: Stimulating Fortuitous Meteor



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Brass Roast Beef Trump Supporter



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Naked Athletic Conference



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: costumed sapphire home



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: rambunctious tanning salon

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: arousing library



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: filthy charcoal sex offender forum

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: cracking french chef



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Brass Roast Beef Trump Supporter

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: Lascivious public bath goyim



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: bossy hot sanctuary filthpig

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: Hideous hairy legs

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: razzmatazz ruby chad locus

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: adventurous brunch

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: costumed sapphire home



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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)