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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Frisky azn patrolman
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
drab underhanded pervert filthpig
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Frisky azn patrolman
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Razzle-dazzle potus ticket booth
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Frisky azn patrolman
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Razzle-dazzle potus ticket booth
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
fantasy-prone tanning salon wrinkle
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Kink-friendly electric philosopher-king
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
soul-stirring heaven jap
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Flirting menage windowlicker
  01/30/21
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Godawful marvelous indirect expression
  01/30/21
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plum gaming laptop double fault
  01/30/21
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drab underhanded pervert filthpig
  01/30/21
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Frisky azn patrolman
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
cobalt spectacular coldplay fan tattoo
  01/30/21
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free-loading frozen stage
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Chestnut casino goal in life
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Passionate state hominid
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
plum gaming laptop double fault
  01/30/21
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Razzle clear ratface abode
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
razzmatazz cream incel school
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
rebellious point mad cow disease
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
mewling office
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
cerise garrison love of her life
  01/30/21
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Frisky azn patrolman
  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: Frisky azn patrolman

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: drab underhanded pervert filthpig

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: Frisky azn patrolman

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: Razzle-dazzle potus ticket booth

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: Frisky azn patrolman

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: Razzle-dazzle potus ticket booth

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

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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: fantasy-prone tanning salon wrinkle

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: Kink-friendly electric philosopher-king

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: soul-stirring heaven jap

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: Flirting menage 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=2Firm#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Godawful marvelous indirect expression



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: plum gaming laptop double fault



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: drab underhanded pervert filthpig



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Frisky azn patrolman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: cobalt spectacular coldplay fan tattoo

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: free-loading frozen stage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Chestnut casino goal in life

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Passionate state hominid



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: plum gaming laptop double fault

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Razzle clear ratface abode



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: razzmatazz cream incel school

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: rebellious point mad cow disease

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: mewling office

Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have any real experience with pretrial discovery

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: cerise garrison love of her life

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Frisky azn patrolman



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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)