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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
painfully honest location
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
flickering rebellious persian mad-dog skullcap
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
painfully honest location
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
bat shit crazy beady-eyed gunner
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
painfully honest location
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
bat shit crazy beady-eyed gunner
  01/30/21
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Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
diverse alcoholic dopamine
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Dull Property
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
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  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
violent stirring legend
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Bonkers Tan Senate
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flickering rebellious persian mad-dog skullcap
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painfully honest location
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Scarlet talented box office rigpig
  01/30/21
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Flushed Garrison
  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...
Bonkers Tan Senate
  01/30/21
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  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
thriller zippy stead
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
mentally impaired pink newt sound barrier
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
stimulating topaz friendly grandma
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  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
apoplectic passionate trailer park ape
  01/30/21
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painfully honest location
  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: painfully honest location

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: flickering rebellious persian mad-dog skullcap

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: painfully honest location

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: bat shit crazy beady-eyed gunner

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: painfully honest location

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: bat shit crazy beady-eyed gunner

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: diverse alcoholic dopamine

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: Dull Property

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: Bistre masturbator jew

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: violent stirring legend

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: spectacular red sandwich stage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Bonkers Tan Senate



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: flickering rebellious persian mad-dog skullcap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: painfully honest location



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Scarlet talented box office rigpig

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: Flushed Garrison



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Saffron Public Bath

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: White effete keepsake machete 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: Bonkers Tan Senate

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: Poppy racy casino



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: thriller zippy stead

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: mentally impaired pink newt sound barrier

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: stimulating topaz friendly grandma

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: apoplectic passionate trailer park ape

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: painfully honest location



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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)