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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
olive plaza
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
turquoise dashing sandwich garrison
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
olive plaza
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
trip garnet pit
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
olive plaza
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
trip garnet pit
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
copper range striped hyena
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Glittery Onyx Stead Becky
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Know-it-all racy bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
cruel-hearted international law enforcement agency principal's office
  01/30/21
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Deep shrine
  01/30/21
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odious godawful national cuck
  01/30/21
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turquoise dashing sandwich garrison
  01/30/21
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olive plaza
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
cream apoplectic toilet seat factory reset button
  01/30/21
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burgundy razzmatazz coldplay fan
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
saffron location
  01/30/21
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spectacular frum university
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
odious godawful national cuck
  01/30/21
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Diverse indian lodge
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Umber stimulating deer antler prole
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
canary institution
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
mauve aggressive rehab
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Primrose Corner Skinny Woman
  01/30/21
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olive plaza
  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: olive plaza

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=5310477#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: turquoise dashing sandwich garrison

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=5310477#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: olive plaza

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=5310477#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: trip garnet pit

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=5310477#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: olive plaza

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: trip garnet pit

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=5310477#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: copper range striped hyena

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=5310477#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Glittery Onyx Stead Becky

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: Know-it-all racy bawdyhouse

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=5310477#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: cruel-hearted international law enforcement agency principal's office

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=5310477#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Deep shrine



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: odious godawful national cuck



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: turquoise dashing sandwich garrison



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: olive plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: cream apoplectic toilet seat factory reset button

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: burgundy razzmatazz coldplay fan



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: saffron location

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: spectacular frum university



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: odious godawful national cuck

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=5310477#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Diverse indian lodge



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Umber stimulating deer antler prole

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310477#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: canary institution

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310477#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: mauve aggressive rehab

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=5310477#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: Primrose Corner Skinny Woman

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=5310477#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: olive plaza



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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=5310477#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=5310477#49782597)