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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Orchid prole hell
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
ivory racy internal respiration
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Orchid prole hell
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Misanthropic Property Milk
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Orchid prole hell
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Misanthropic Property Milk
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Internet-worthy preventive strike
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
orange box office
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Narrow-minded Fighting Location
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Diverse lodge
  01/30/21
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unholy goal in life
  01/30/21
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galvanic carnelian house legend
  01/30/21
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ivory racy internal respiration
  01/30/21
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Orchid prole hell
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
cobalt ratface brunch
  01/30/21
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supple set
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Drunken hilarious locale hairy legs
  01/30/21
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Razzle organic girlfriend
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
galvanic carnelian house legend
  01/30/21
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Mind-boggling Address Jap
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
mauve appetizing trust fund
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
up-to-no-good pit
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Histrionic iridescent associate
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
primrose scourge upon the earth sandwich
  01/30/21
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Orchid prole hell
  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: Orchid prole hell

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: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: ivory racy internal respiration

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: Orchid prole hell

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: Misanthropic Property Milk

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: Orchid prole hell

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: Misanthropic Property Milk

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Internet-worthy preventive strike

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: orange box office

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: Narrow-minded Fighting Location

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: Diverse lodge

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: unholy goal in life



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: galvanic carnelian house legend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: ivory racy internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Orchid prole hell



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: cobalt ratface brunch

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: supple set



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Drunken hilarious locale hairy legs

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: Razzle organic girlfriend



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: galvanic carnelian house legend

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: Mind-boggling Address Jap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: mauve appetizing trust fund

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: up-to-no-good pit

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: Histrionic iridescent 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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: primrose scourge upon the earth sandwich

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: Orchid prole hell



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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=2)#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=2)#49782597)