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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Unhinged big temple death wish
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
topaz meetinghouse wrinkle
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Unhinged big temple death wish
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
twisted exciting dilemma factory reset button
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Unhinged big temple death wish
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
twisted exciting dilemma factory reset button
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
beady-eyed hyperventilating principal's office
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
judgmental multi-colored pocket flask
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
anal razzle-dazzle nursing home useless brakes
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Mildly autistic frozen locale place of business
  01/30/21
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Vivacious marketing idea plaza
  01/30/21
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Boyish theatre
  01/30/21
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topaz meetinghouse wrinkle
  01/30/21
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Unhinged big temple death wish
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Bespoke Free-loading Theater Rigor
  01/30/21
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Lemon racy hell skinny woman
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Soul-stirring whorehouse psychic
  01/30/21
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high-end trump supporter
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Boyish theatre
  01/30/21
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fighting lavender tanning salon background story
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
cruel-hearted amethyst public bath potus
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
abusive parlour
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
disturbing emerald chapel
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
garnet base
  01/30/21
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Unhinged big temple death wish
  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: Unhinged big temple death wish

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: topaz meetinghouse wrinkle

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: Unhinged big temple death wish

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: twisted exciting dilemma factory reset button

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: Unhinged big temple death wish

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: twisted exciting dilemma factory reset button

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: beady-eyed hyperventilating principal's office

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: judgmental multi-colored pocket flask

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: anal razzle-dazzle nursing home useless brakes

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: Mildly autistic frozen locale place of business

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: Vivacious marketing idea plaza



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Boyish theatre



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: topaz meetinghouse wrinkle



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Unhinged big temple death wish



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Bespoke Free-loading Theater Rigor

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: Lemon racy hell skinny woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Soul-stirring whorehouse psychic

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: high-end trump supporter



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Boyish theatre

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: fighting lavender tanning salon background story



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: cruel-hearted amethyst public bath potus

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: abusive parlour

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: disturbing emerald chapel

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: garnet base

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: Unhinged big temple death wish



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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)