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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Free-loading principal's office
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
charcoal national rigor
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Free-loading principal's office
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
plum big kitty school cafeteria
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Free-loading principal's office
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
plum big kitty school cafeteria
  01/30/21
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honey-headed black woman
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Nofapping ape
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
chest-beating trailer park
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Supple Church Building Useless Brakes
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I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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claret zippy mad cow disease garrison
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charcoal national rigor
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Free-loading principal's office
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
frum goal in life native
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Talented infuriating half-breed space
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Smoky Son Of Senegal Hall
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aqua pontificating stead indirect expression
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honey-headed black woman
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
claret zippy mad cow disease garrison
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Massive irradiated sandwich plaza
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
elite gay wizard
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
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Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
carmine laughsome associate
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honey-headed black woman
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Zombie-like stage faggot firefighter
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Free-loading principal's office
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
frisky sadistic sanctuary
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Navy area idea he suggested
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
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"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Free-loading principal's office

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),#41856046)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are))



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: charcoal national rigor

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),#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Free-loading principal's office

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),#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: plum big kitty school cafeteria

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),#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Free-loading principal's office

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: plum big kitty school cafeteria

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),#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: honey-headed black woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Nofapping ape

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),#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: chest-beating trailer park

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),#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Supple Church Building Useless Brakes

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),#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Puce bull headed station friendly grandma

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),#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: doobsian shrine bbw



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: claret zippy mad cow disease garrison



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: charcoal national rigor



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Free-loading principal's office



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: frum goal in life native

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Talented infuriating half-breed space



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Smoky Son Of Senegal Hall

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: aqua pontificating stead indirect expression



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: honey-headed black woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: claret zippy mad cow disease garrison

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),#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Massive irradiated sandwich plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: elite gay wizard

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: boyish crusty crackhouse antidepressant drug

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: carmine laughsome associate

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),#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: honey-headed black woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Zombie-like stage faggot firefighter

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Free-loading principal's office



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: frisky sadistic sanctuary

i practically invented "e"-discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2),#49782565)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Navy area idea he suggested

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),#49782597)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Sounds like we all had the same professor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2),#49839788)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: sealclubber

"why don't law schools teach [topic]"?

guy who didn't go to law school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2),#49839789)