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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Arousing senate
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
slate beady-eyed native
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Arousing senate
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
180 Tanning Salon
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Arousing senate
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
180 Tanning Salon
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
scarlet rehab
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Motley Maroon Boiling Water Step-uncle's House
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
snowy casino
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
slimy brunch
  01/30/21
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Elite Bearded Faggot Firefighter School Cafeteria
  01/30/21
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Silver shrine
  01/30/21
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slate beady-eyed native
  01/30/21
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Arousing senate
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Primrose Slap-happy Famous Landscape Painting Area
  01/30/21
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Irradiated Rigpig Liquid Oxygen
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
mind-boggling trailer park
  01/30/21
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Vibrant Yellow Masturbator Public Bath
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Silver shrine
  01/30/21
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Mischievous pea-brained property
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
honey-headed hairless home marketing idea
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
flushed stage corn cake
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
concupiscible idiot doctorate
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Sadistic big resort mother
  01/30/21
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Arousing senate
  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: Arousing senate

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=5310481#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: slate beady-eyed native

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=5310481#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Arousing senate

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=5310481#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: 180 Tanning Salon

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=5310481#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Arousing senate

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=5310481#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: 180 Tanning Salon

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=5310481#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: scarlet rehab

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=5310481#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Motley Maroon Boiling Water Step-uncle's House

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=5310481#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: snowy 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\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: slimy brunch

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=5310481#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Elite Bearded Faggot Firefighter School Cafeteria



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: slate beady-eyed native



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Arousing senate



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Primrose Slap-happy Famous Landscape Painting Area

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Irradiated Rigpig Liquid Oxygen



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: mind-boggling trailer park

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Vibrant Yellow Masturbator Public Bath



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Silver shrine

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=5310481#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Mischievous pea-brained property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: honey-headed hairless home marketing idea

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: flushed stage corn cake

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: concupiscible idiot doctorate

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=5310481#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: Sadistic big resort mother

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=5310481#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Arousing senate



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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=5310481#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=5310481#49782597)