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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
odious famous landscape painting business firm
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
indigo hilarious locale wrinkle
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
odious famous landscape painting business firm
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
walnut vibrant really tough guy filthpig
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
odious famous landscape painting business firm
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
walnut vibrant really tough guy filthpig
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
fragrant native
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Violet casino yarmulke
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
domesticated at-the-ready circlehead idea he suggested
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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glittery church building
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cruel-hearted theatre
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indigo hilarious locale wrinkle
  01/30/21
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odious famous landscape painting business firm
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Startling office
  01/30/21
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Gay Location
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Azure cuckoldry psychic
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gold set
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
cruel-hearted theatre
  01/30/21
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Violent charcoal weed whacker
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Sable pocket flask house
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
boyish site dingle berry
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Talented Flickering Roast Beef Ticket Booth
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
crystalline galvanic bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
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odious famous landscape painting business firm
  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: odious famous landscape painting business firm

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?

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: indigo hilarious locale wrinkle

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: odious famous landscape painting business firm

they could at least teach basic written objections under the federal rules. first-year biglaw attys are clueless about this stuff.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: walnut vibrant really tough guy filthpig

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: odious famous landscape painting business firm

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: walnut vibrant really tough guy filthpig

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: fragrant native

Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like how business schools do "case studies"?

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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Violet casino yarmulke

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: domesticated at-the-ready circlehead idea he suggested

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: obsidian electric furnace forum

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.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: cruel-hearted theatre



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: indigo hilarious locale wrinkle



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: odious famous landscape painting business firm



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Startling office

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Gay Location



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Azure cuckoldry psychic

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: gold set



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: cruel-hearted theatre

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Violent charcoal weed whacker



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Sable pocket flask house

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: boyish site dingle berry

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Talented Flickering Roast Beef Ticket Booth

Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have any real experience with pretrial discovery

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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: crystalline galvanic bawdyhouse

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: odious famous landscape painting business firm



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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=5310909#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=5310909#49782597)