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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
aromatic tan stage
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Outnumbered digit ratio
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Outnumbered digit ratio
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
flesh bawdyhouse incel
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Concupiscible Impressive Area Pozpig
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Fragrant pearly shrine giraffe
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
brindle racy sex offender
  01/30/21
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histrionic chapel
  01/30/21
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purple cruise ship
  01/30/21
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aromatic tan stage
  01/30/21
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Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
gold set doctorate
  01/30/21
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Laughsome big-titted international law enforcement agency
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
house-broken arousing puppy
  01/30/21
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low-t garrison boiling water
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
purple cruise ship
  01/30/21
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Fishy diverse police squad
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
brilliant cracking orchestra pit
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
supple twisted den scourge upon the earth
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Coiffed self-centered university
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Motley theater stage
  01/30/21
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Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life
  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: Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life

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=2Firm#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: aromatic tan stage

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: Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life

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: Outnumbered digit ratio

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=2Firm#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life

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: Outnumbered digit ratio

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Firm#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: flesh bawdyhouse incel

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: Concupiscible Impressive Area Pozpig

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: Fragrant pearly shrine giraffe

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=2Firm#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: brindle racy sex offender

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=2Firm#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: histrionic chapel



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: purple cruise ship



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: aromatic tan stage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: gold set doctorate

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Laughsome big-titted international law enforcement agency



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: house-broken arousing puppy

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: low-t garrison boiling water



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: purple cruise ship

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=2Firm#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Fishy diverse police squad



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: brilliant cracking orchestra pit

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: supple twisted den scourge upon the earth

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Coiffed self-centered university

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=2Firm#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: Motley theater stage

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Mustard narrow-minded rehab love of her life



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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=2Firm#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=2Firm#49782597)