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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
fragrant emerald dilemma
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
multi-colored area ceo
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
fragrant emerald dilemma
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
carnelian laser beams
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
fragrant emerald dilemma
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
carnelian laser beams
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
cowardly bat-shit-crazy rigor pit
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Arrogant effete hospital pisswyrm
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Misanthropic Degenerate
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
sapphire range
  01/30/21
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Bright Charismatic Knife
  01/30/21
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titillating tripping fat ankles garrison
  01/30/21
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multi-colored area ceo
  01/30/21
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fragrant emerald dilemma
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
bateful piazza
  01/30/21
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Translucent Bipolar Weed Whacker Legend
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
alcoholic thriller messiness
  01/30/21
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big-titted library
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
titillating tripping fat ankles garrison
  01/30/21
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Free-loading glittery whorehouse party of the first part
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Provocative university organic girlfriend
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
embarrassed to the bone house
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Haunting Associate Theater Stage
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Mewling Maniacal Personal Credit Line Step-uncle's House
  01/30/21
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fragrant emerald dilemma
  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: fragrant emerald dilemma

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: multi-colored area ceo

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: fragrant emerald dilemma

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: carnelian laser beams

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: fragrant emerald dilemma

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: carnelian laser beams

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: cowardly bat-shit-crazy rigor pit

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: Arrogant effete hospital pisswyrm

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: Misanthropic Degenerate

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: sapphire range

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: Bright Charismatic Knife



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: titillating tripping fat ankles garrison



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: multi-colored area ceo



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: fragrant emerald dilemma



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: bateful piazza

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Translucent Bipolar Weed Whacker Legend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: alcoholic thriller messiness

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: big-titted library



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: titillating tripping fat ankles 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.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Free-loading glittery whorehouse party of the first part



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Provocative university organic girlfriend

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone house

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Haunting Associate Theater Stage

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: Mewling Maniacal Personal Credit Line Step-uncle's House

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: fragrant emerald dilemma



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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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)