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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
spectacular field potus
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Insanely creepy ape athletic conference
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
spectacular field potus
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Medicated New Version
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
spectacular field potus
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Medicated New Version
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Disrespectful den
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Onyx Crackhouse Community Account
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
vermilion haunted graveyard principal's office
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Autistic cocky stain
  01/30/21
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Razzle church
  01/30/21
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Ruby ungodly step-uncle's house son of senegal
  01/30/21
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Insanely creepy ape athletic conference
  01/30/21
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spectacular field potus
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
arousing hairless toilet seat
  01/30/21
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Bossy hell black woman
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Bipolar irradiated coffee pot
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hot histrionic hospital
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Ruby ungodly step-uncle's house son of senegal
  01/30/21
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Comical immigrant
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Stimulating Coral Voyeur
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Chrome Boistinker Spot
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
diverse tripping station trump supporter
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
vivacious federal garrison
  01/30/21
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spectacular field potus
  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: spectacular field potus

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=5310752#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Insanely creepy ape athletic conference

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=5310752#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: spectacular field potus

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=5310752#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Medicated New Version

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=5310752#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: spectacular field potus

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=5310752#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Medicated New Version

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=5310752#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: Disrespectful den

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=5310752#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Onyx Crackhouse Community Account

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: vermilion haunted graveyard principal's office

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=5310752#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Autistic cocky stain

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=5310752#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Razzle church



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Ruby ungodly step-uncle's house son of senegal



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Insanely creepy ape athletic conference



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: spectacular field potus



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: arousing hairless toilet seat

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Bossy hell black woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Bipolar irradiated coffee pot

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: hot histrionic hospital



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Ruby ungodly step-uncle's house son of senegal

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=5310752#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Comical immigrant



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Stimulating Coral Voyeur

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Chrome Boistinker Spot

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: diverse tripping station trump supporter

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=5310752#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: vivacious federal garrison

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=5310752#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: spectacular field potus



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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=5310752#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=5310752#49782597)