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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Mewling temple private investor
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Snowy Appetizing Center
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Mewling temple private investor
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Costumed Set Giraffe
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Mewling temple private investor
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Costumed Set Giraffe
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
concupiscible wrinkle
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
sick cuckoldry keepsake machete
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Blue school cafeteria voyeur
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Comical gold sanctuary pervert
  01/30/21
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wonderful ivory stage ratface
  01/30/21
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Jet Razzle-dazzle Indirect Expression
  01/30/21
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Snowy Appetizing Center
  01/30/21
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Mewling temple private investor
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Bateful khaki den ape
  01/30/21
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Pearly dysfunction
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
scarlet talented ceo
  01/30/21
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Stimulating mentally impaired legend native
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Jet Razzle-dazzle Indirect Expression
  01/30/21
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Hyperactive Organic Girlfriend
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Aphrodisiac Chad
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
excitant magenta university
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Bespoke Adulterous Hell
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Aromatic step-uncle's house
  01/30/21
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Mewling temple private investor
  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: Mewling temple private investor

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=5310751#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Snowy Appetizing Center

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=5310751#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Mewling temple private investor

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=5310751#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Costumed Set Giraffe

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=5310751#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Mewling temple private investor

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=5310751#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Costumed Set Giraffe

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=5310751#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: concupiscible wrinkle

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=5310751#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: sick cuckoldry keepsake machete

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=5310751#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Blue school cafeteria voyeur

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=5310751#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Comical gold sanctuary pervert

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=5310751#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: wonderful ivory stage ratface



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Jet Razzle-dazzle Indirect Expression



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Snowy Appetizing Center



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Mewling temple private investor



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Bateful khaki den ape

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Pearly dysfunction



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: scarlet talented ceo

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Stimulating mentally impaired legend native



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Jet Razzle-dazzle Indirect Expression

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=5310751#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Hyperactive Organic Girlfriend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Chad

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: excitant magenta university

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Bespoke Adulterous Hell

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=5310751#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: Aromatic 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=5310751#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Mewling temple private investor



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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=5310751#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=5310751#49782597)