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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
pearly love of her life alpha
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
chartreuse lettuce
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
pearly love of her life alpha
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
alcoholic talented center
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
pearly love of her life alpha
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
alcoholic talented center
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Red self-centered library really tough guy
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
pearl nursing home
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Gold site liquid oxygen
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
odious feces
  01/30/21
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Peach vibrant sound barrier
  01/30/21
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stimulating legend goal in life
  01/30/21
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chartreuse lettuce
  01/30/21
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pearly love of her life alpha
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Cobalt french hell
  01/30/21
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thriller halford
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Lemon Out-of-control Church Building
  01/30/21
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Sadistic mewling native
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
stimulating legend goal in life
  01/30/21
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shivering bat shit crazy field
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
racy bat-shit-crazy spot
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
curious kitty
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
mind-boggling mint ape
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
glittery jade private investor codepig
  01/30/21
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pearly love of her life alpha
  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: pearly love of her life alpha

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: chartreuse lettuce

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: pearly love of her life alpha

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 talented center

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: pearly love of her life alpha

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 talented center

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: Red self-centered library really tough guy

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: pearl nursing home

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: Gold site liquid oxygen

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: odious feces

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: Peach vibrant sound barrier



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: stimulating legend goal in life



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: chartreuse lettuce



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: pearly love of her life alpha



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Cobalt french hell

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: thriller halford



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Lemon Out-of-control Church Building

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: Sadistic mewling 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: stimulating legend goal in life

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: shivering bat shit crazy field



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: racy bat-shit-crazy spot

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: curious kitty

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: mind-boggling mint ape

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: glittery jade private investor codepig

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: pearly love of her life alpha



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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)