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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Thriller buff chapel pervert
  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...
Bateful home sound barrier
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Thriller buff chapel pervert
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Lime bbw
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Thriller buff chapel pervert
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
obsidian irate national security agency
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
stirring potus theater stage
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Odious pozpig
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Deranged Stage
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Bateful home sound barrier
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Thriller buff chapel pervert
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Poppy stock car station
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Aggressive senate mad-dog skullcap
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Mint Rebellious Native
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Puce Marvelous Karate
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
galvanic self-centered boltzmann electric furnace
  01/30/21
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slap-happy pistol institution
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Territorial Jet Forum
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
hairraiser space
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
chrome marketing idea
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kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
harsh gold circlehead point
  01/30/21
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Thriller buff chapel pervert
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Beady-eyed Dun Pit
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
rose underhanded step-uncle's house
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Thriller buff chapel pervert

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: 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))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#49839103)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Bateful home sound barrier

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: Thriller buff chapel pervert

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: Lime bbw

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: Thriller buff chapel pervert

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: Lime bbw

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: hairless vibrant associate liquid oxygen



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: obsidian irate national security agency

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: stirring potus theater stage

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Odious pozpig

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: Deranged Stage

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: Orchid up-to-no-good french chef



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: galvanic self-centered boltzmann electric furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#41856143)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Bateful home sound barrier



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Thriller buff chapel pervert



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Poppy stock car station

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: Aggressive senate mad-dog skullcap



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Mint Rebellious Native

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: Puce Marvelous Karate



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: hairless vibrant associate liquid oxygen



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: galvanic self-centered boltzmann electric furnace

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: slap-happy pistol institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#41856160)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Territorial Jet Forum

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: hairraiser space

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: chrome marketing idea

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: hairless vibrant associate liquid oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2,#49782563)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: harsh gold circlehead point

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: Thriller buff chapel pervert



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Dun Pit

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: rose underhanded step-uncle's house

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)