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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Scarlet Marvelous Native
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Wonderful alpha menage
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Scarlet Marvelous Native
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
sepia temple factory reset button
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Scarlet Marvelous Native
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
sepia temple factory reset button
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Charismatic jap
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Dashing faggot firefighter school cafeteria
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Iridescent sticky liquid oxygen
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Swashbuckling Adulterous Legend Coffee Pot
  01/30/21
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vibrant university
  01/30/21
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Disturbing racy quadroon
  01/30/21
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Wonderful alpha menage
  01/30/21
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Scarlet Marvelous Native
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
dark house sweet tailpipe
  01/30/21
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rough-skinned trailer park
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
insecure kitty cat
  01/30/21
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Crimson mind-boggling brethren feces
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Disturbing racy quadroon
  01/30/21
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translucent duck-like gunner home
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Slimy school
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Hot Aphrodisiac Community Account French Chef
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
splenetic odious public bath
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Demanding free-loading step-uncle's house
  01/30/21
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Scarlet Marvelous Native
  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: Scarlet Marvelous Native

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Wonderful alpha menage

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Scarlet Marvelous Native

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: sepia temple factory reset button

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Scarlet Marvelous Native

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: sepia temple factory reset button

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#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: Charismatic jap

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Dashing faggot firefighter school cafeteria

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Iridescent sticky liquid oxygen

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Adulterous Legend Coffee Pot

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: vibrant university



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Disturbing racy quadroon



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Wonderful alpha menage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Scarlet Marvelous Native



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: dark house sweet tailpipe

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: rough-skinned trailer park



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: insecure kitty cat

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Crimson mind-boggling brethren feces



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Disturbing racy quadroon

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: translucent duck-like gunner home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Slimy school

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Hot Aphrodisiac Community Account French Chef

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: splenetic odious public bath

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\u0026mark_id=5310074#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: Demanding free-loading step-uncle's house

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Scarlet Marvelous Native



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#43938643)



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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\u0026mark_id=5310074#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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49782597)