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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Disturbing gas station
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Drab Wagecucks Forum
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Disturbing gas station
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
zippy aquamarine trust fund
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Disturbing gas station
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
zippy aquamarine trust fund
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
maroon dysfunction
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Autistic garrison
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
ivory vengeful multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Big purple windowlicker
  01/30/21
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peach philosopher-king range
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frisky address
  01/30/21
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Drab Wagecucks Forum
  01/30/21
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Disturbing gas station
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
rose hunting ground university
  01/30/21
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Mustard Insane Voyeur
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
House-broken bonkers crackhouse
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Mahogany friendly grandma principal's office
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
frisky address
  01/30/21
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hairraiser dog poop office
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Dark filthy library
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
pearly racy rigpig
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
shivering chrome roommate indirect expression
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Vibrant Menage Shitlib
  01/30/21
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Disturbing gas station
  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: Disturbing gas station

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\u0026show=month#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Drab Wagecucks Forum

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\u0026show=month#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Disturbing gas station

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\u0026show=month#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: zippy aquamarine trust fund

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\u0026show=month#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Disturbing gas station

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\u0026show=month#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: zippy aquamarine trust fund

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\u0026show=month#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: maroon dysfunction

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\u0026show=month#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Autistic garrison

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\u0026show=month#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: ivory vengeful multi-billionaire

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\u0026show=month#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Big purple windowlicker

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\u0026show=month#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: peach philosopher-king range



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: frisky address



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Drab Wagecucks Forum



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Disturbing gas station



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: rose hunting ground university

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Mustard Insane Voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856569)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: House-broken bonkers crackhouse

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Mahogany friendly grandma principal's office



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: frisky address

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\u0026show=month#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: hairraiser dog poop office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Dark filthy library

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: pearly racy rigpig

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: shivering chrome roommate indirect expression

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\u0026show=month#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: Vibrant Menage Shitlib

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Disturbing gas station



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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\u0026show=month#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\u0026show=month#49782597)