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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
irradiated honey-headed immigrant
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Maize hospital becky
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
irradiated honey-headed immigrant
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
alcoholic trip azn stead
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
irradiated honey-headed immigrant
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
alcoholic trip azn stead
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Rambunctious Stage Trust Fund
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
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  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Boyish burgundy field
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
bossy translucent university
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crystalline prole
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Maize hospital becky
  01/30/21
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irradiated honey-headed immigrant
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Pearly seedy alpha indirect expression
  01/30/21
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geriatric police squad lodge
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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Ivory address dopamine
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
crystalline prole
  01/30/21
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cerebral idiotic library
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Saffron Mind-boggling Depressive
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
sooty vivacious philosopher-king
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Charismatic Avocado Preventive Strike
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
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  01/30/21
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irradiated honey-headed immigrant
  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: irradiated honey-headed immigrant

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=week#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Maize hospital becky

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=week#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: irradiated honey-headed immigrant

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=week#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: alcoholic trip azn stead

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=week#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: irradiated honey-headed immigrant

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=week#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: alcoholic trip azn stead

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=week#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: Rambunctious Stage Trust Fund

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=week#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: magenta overrated gaming laptop weed whacker

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=week#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Boyish burgundy field

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=week#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: bossy translucent university

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=week#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Transparent concupiscible whorehouse bbw



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: crystalline prole



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#41856143)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Maize hospital becky



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: irradiated honey-headed immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Pearly seedy alpha indirect expression

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: geriatric police squad lodge



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Jade striped hyena tanning salon

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Ivory address dopamine



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: crystalline prole

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=week#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: cerebral idiotic library



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Saffron Mind-boggling Depressive

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: sooty vivacious philosopher-king

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Charismatic Avocado Preventive Strike

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=week#41856896)



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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49782563)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: duck-like electric furnace casino

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: irradiated honey-headed immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#43938643)



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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=week#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=week#49782597)