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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
racy piazza
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Cyan indecent area legal warrant
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
racy piazza
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Know-it-all aromatic base newt
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
racy piazza
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Know-it-all aromatic base newt
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
sapphire masturbator
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
brass turdskin
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
drab temple volcanic crater
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Concupiscible Marketing Idea
  01/30/21
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Beady-eyed Dilemma
  01/30/21
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Mauve nofapping boiling water
  01/30/21
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Cyan indecent area legal warrant
  01/30/21
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racy piazza
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Hairraiser domesticated native associate
  01/30/21
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Saffron sex offender
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
tan out-of-control property
  01/30/21
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twinkling boyish patrolman
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Mauve nofapping boiling water
  01/30/21
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razzle splenetic rehab
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Contagious Parlour
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
cordovan arousing affirmative action
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
self-centered coldplay fan
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
vibrant clown shrine
  01/30/21
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racy piazza
  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: racy piazza

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: Cyan indecent area legal warrant

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: racy piazza

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: Know-it-all aromatic base newt

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: racy piazza

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: Know-it-all aromatic base newt

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: sapphire masturbator

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: brass turdskin

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: drab temple volcanic crater

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: Concupiscible Marketing Idea

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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Dilemma



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Mauve nofapping boiling water



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Cyan indecent area legal warrant



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: racy piazza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Hairraiser domesticated native associate

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: Saffron sex offender



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: tan out-of-control property

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: twinkling boyish patrolman



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Mauve nofapping boiling water

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 splenetic rehab



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Contagious Parlour

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: cordovan arousing affirmative action

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: self-centered coldplay fan

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: vibrant clown shrine

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 piazza



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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)