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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Floppy topaz legend
  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...
spectacular cruel-hearted menage
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Floppy topaz legend
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Histrionic Walnut Marketing Idea Kitty Cat
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Floppy topaz legend
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Histrionic Walnut Marketing Idea Kitty Cat
  01/30/21
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Autistic vigorous plaza
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Saffron multi-colored center voyeur
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
exhilarant senate
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Cracking Arrogant Ape
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Slippery obsidian casino headpube
  01/30/21
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Mahogany Motley Place Of Business Circlehead
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Claret range
  01/30/21
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spectacular cruel-hearted menage
  01/30/21
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Floppy topaz legend
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Milky Garrison
  01/30/21
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violet skinny woman sound barrier
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Stimulating Nighttime Sanctuary Double Fault
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light fortuitous meteor heaven
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Autistic vigorous plaza
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Claret range
  01/30/21
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marvelous brass pit
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
ultramarine frisky death wish pozpig
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
aromatic mexican really tough guy
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
arousing cuckold
  01/30/21
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Autistic vigorous plaza
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
dead laser beams
  01/30/21
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Floppy topaz legend
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
titillating canary corner pisswyrm
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
cordovan crusty office useless brakes
  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: Floppy topaz legend

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: 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: spectacular cruel-hearted menage

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: Floppy topaz legend

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: Histrionic Walnut Marketing Idea Kitty Cat

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: Floppy topaz legend

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: Histrionic Walnut Marketing Idea Kitty Cat

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: Autistic vigorous plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Saffron multi-colored center voyeur

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: exhilarant senate

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: Cracking Arrogant Ape

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: Slippery obsidian casino headpube

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: Mahogany Motley Place Of Business Circlehead



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Claret range



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: spectacular cruel-hearted menage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Floppy topaz legend



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Milky Garrison

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: violet skinny woman sound barrier



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Stimulating Nighttime Sanctuary Double Fault

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: light fortuitous meteor heaven



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Autistic vigorous plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Claret range

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: marvelous brass pit



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: ultramarine frisky death wish pozpig

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: aromatic mexican really tough guy

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: arousing cuckold

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: Autistic vigorous plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: dead laser beams

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: Floppy topaz legend



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: titillating canary corner pisswyrm

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: cordovan crusty office useless brakes

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)