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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Contagious zippy voyeur
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
twinkling hyperventilating hospital
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Contagious zippy voyeur
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
federal digit ratio black woman
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Contagious zippy voyeur
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
federal digit ratio black woman
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
thriller point crotch
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Brindle Nudist Institution
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
crawly national
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
medicated shaky private investor
  01/30/21
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topaz juggernaut coffee pot
  01/30/21
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Carnelian clown
  01/30/21
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twinkling hyperventilating hospital
  01/30/21
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Contagious zippy voyeur
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
wine violent set
  01/30/21
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talented maniacal organic girlfriend
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
beta cracking spot
  01/30/21
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flesh charismatic state karate
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Carnelian clown
  01/30/21
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Appetizing alpha chapel
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Big heaven
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
dark tanning salon ape
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
turquoise hairless base
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Splenetic know-it-all rehab
  01/30/21
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Contagious zippy voyeur
  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: Contagious zippy voyeur

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=5310690#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: twinkling hyperventilating hospital

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=5310690#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Contagious zippy voyeur

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=5310690#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: federal digit ratio black woman

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=5310690#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Contagious zippy voyeur

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=5310690#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: federal digit ratio black woman

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=5310690#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: thriller point crotch

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=5310690#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Brindle Nudist Institution

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=5310690#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: crawly national

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=5310690#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: medicated shaky private investor

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=5310690#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: topaz juggernaut coffee pot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Carnelian clown



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: twinkling hyperventilating hospital



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Contagious zippy voyeur



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: wine violent set

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: talented maniacal organic girlfriend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: beta cracking spot

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: flesh charismatic state karate



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Carnelian clown

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=5310690#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Appetizing alpha chapel



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Big heaven

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: dark tanning salon ape

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: turquoise hairless base

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=5310690#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: Splenetic know-it-all rehab

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=5310690#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Contagious zippy voyeur



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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=5310690#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=5310690#49782597)