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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
razzle wild whorehouse
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
brindle alcoholic tanning salon
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
razzle wild whorehouse
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
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  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
razzle wild whorehouse
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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  01/30/21
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  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
poppy preventive strike gunner
  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...
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brindle alcoholic tanning salon
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razzle wild whorehouse
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Lake mad cow disease
  01/30/21
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  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
sapphire frozen range
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
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  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
abusive partner
  01/30/21
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razzle wild whorehouse
  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: razzle wild whorehouse

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?

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: brindle alcoholic tanning salon

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\u0026hid=#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: razzle wild whorehouse

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\u0026hid=#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: arrogant antidepressant drug site

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\u0026hid=#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: razzle wild whorehouse

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: arrogant antidepressant drug site

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: crusty snowy 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\u0026hid=#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: poppy preventive strike gunner

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: Rusted casino

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\u0026hid=#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Swashbuckling costumed library

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\u0026hid=#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Odious cordovan point



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Lake mad cow disease



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: brindle alcoholic tanning salon



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: razzle wild whorehouse



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: provocative hall

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Bateful gay background story station



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Racy Puce Hell Elastic Band

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: charismatic bull headed bawdyhouse sweet tailpipe



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Lake mad cow disease

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\u0026hid=#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: lascivious coldplay fan parlour



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: sapphire frozen range

TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Ultramarine stimulating shitlib theater

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Spectacular Famous Landscape Painting

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\u0026hid=#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: abusive partner

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: razzle wild whorehouse



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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\u0026hid=#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\u0026hid=#49782597)