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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
racy institution round eye
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Yellow stimulating digit ratio sweet tailpipe
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
racy institution round eye
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
erotic chest-beating immigrant national security agency
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
racy institution round eye
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
erotic chest-beating immigrant national security agency
  01/30/21
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duck-like library sex offender
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Exciting Love Of Her Life University
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Thriller topaz philosopher-king parlour
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
sable nursing home
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Curious orchestra pit
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dashing genital piercing idiot
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at-the-ready titillating legal warrant
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Yellow stimulating digit ratio sweet tailpipe
  01/30/21
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racy institution round eye
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
indigo cuckoldry
  01/30/21
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Cowardly corner
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
carnelian boistinker
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Cracking useless coffee pot
  01/30/21
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duck-like library sex offender
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
at-the-ready titillating legal warrant
  01/30/21
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charcoal rigor rehab
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
heady chrome liquid oxygen stage
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Adventurous mauve giraffe step-uncle's house
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Pearl excitant sanctuary ceo
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duck-like library sex offender
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
smoky stock car
  01/30/21
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racy institution round eye
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
self-centered talented coldplay fan
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Dead milk toilet seat
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
sealclubber
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: racy institution round eye

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: Yellow stimulating digit ratio sweet tailpipe

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: racy institution round eye

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: erotic chest-beating immigrant national security agency

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: racy institution round eye

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),#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: erotic chest-beating immigrant national security agency

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: duck-like library sex offender



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Exciting Love Of Her Life University

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: Thriller topaz philosopher-king parlour

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: sable nursing home

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: Curious orchestra pit

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: dashing genital piercing idiot



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: at-the-ready titillating legal warrant



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Yellow stimulating digit ratio sweet tailpipe



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: racy institution round eye



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: indigo cuckoldry

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: Cowardly corner



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: carnelian boistinker

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: Cracking useless coffee pot



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: duck-like library sex offender



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: at-the-ready titillating legal warrant

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: charcoal rigor rehab



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: heady chrome liquid oxygen stage

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: Adventurous mauve giraffe step-uncle's house

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: Pearl excitant sanctuary ceo

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: duck-like library sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2),#49782563)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: smoky stock car

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: racy institution round eye



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: self-centered talented coldplay fan

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: Dead milk toilet seat

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)