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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Floppy theater stage personal credit line
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
maniacal histrionic wagecucks
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Floppy theater stage personal credit line
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Irradiated Forum
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Floppy theater stage personal credit line
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Irradiated Forum
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Embarrassed to the bone pozpig site
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Ruddy Nubile Box Office Boistinker
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Racy seedy stock car
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Cowardly market
  01/30/21
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Well-lubricated Ivory Locus Therapy
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multi-colored big-titted theatre son of senegal
  01/30/21
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maniacal histrionic wagecucks
  01/30/21
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Floppy theater stage personal credit line
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
stirring umber depressive fat ankles
  01/30/21
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Shivering sandwich
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Electric nibblets
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Exhilarant Gaming Laptop
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
multi-colored big-titted theatre son of senegal
  01/30/21
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Fuchsia church
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
saffron national
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Aquamarine faggot firefighter
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
boyish fanboi meetinghouse
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Dead useless brakes
  01/30/21
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Floppy theater stage personal credit line
  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: Floppy theater stage personal credit line

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: maniacal histrionic wagecucks

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=2Firm#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Floppy theater stage personal credit line

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: Irradiated Forum

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: Floppy theater stage personal credit line

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: Irradiated Forum

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: Embarrassed to the bone pozpig site

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: Ruddy Nubile Box Office Boistinker

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: Racy seedy stock car

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: Cowardly market

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: Well-lubricated Ivory Locus Therapy



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: multi-colored big-titted theatre son of senegal



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: maniacal histrionic wagecucks



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Floppy theater stage personal credit line



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: stirring umber depressive fat ankles

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Shivering sandwich



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Electric nibblets

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Exhilarant Gaming Laptop



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: multi-colored big-titted theatre son of senegal

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: Fuchsia church



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: saffron national

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: Aquamarine faggot firefighter

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: boyish fanboi meetinghouse

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: Dead useless brakes

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Floppy theater stage personal credit line



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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)