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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
sickened dopamine
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
dull concupiscible office
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
sickened dopamine
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Drunken turquoise school psychic
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
sickened dopamine
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Drunken turquoise school psychic
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
sooty fortuitous meteor bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Vivacious rebellious hairy legs
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Thriller famous landscape painting laser beams
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
stimulating insecure international law enforcement agency
  01/30/21
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honey-headed school cafeteria
  01/30/21
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Rusted fragrant sandwich cuck
  01/30/21
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dull concupiscible office
  01/30/21
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sickened dopamine
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
henna sanctuary faggotry
  01/30/21
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Razzle-dazzle location
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Ungodly mind-boggling lettuce menage
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curious university background story
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Rusted fragrant sandwich cuck
  01/30/21
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jet affirmative action
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Twisted Cowardly Cruise Ship
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
amethyst stead
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
charismatic associate
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
pearly stirring stage
  01/30/21
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sickened dopamine
  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: sickened dopamine

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: dull concupiscible office

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: sickened dopamine

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: Drunken turquoise school psychic

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: sickened dopamine

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: Drunken turquoise school psychic

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: sooty fortuitous meteor bawdyhouse

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: Vivacious rebellious hairy legs

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: Thriller famous landscape painting laser beams

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: stimulating insecure international law enforcement agency

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: honey-headed school cafeteria



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Rusted fragrant sandwich cuck



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: dull concupiscible office



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: sickened dopamine



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: henna sanctuary faggotry

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: Razzle-dazzle location



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Ungodly mind-boggling lettuce menage

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: curious university background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2/#41856907)



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Rusted fragrant sandwich cuck

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: jet affirmative action



(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: Twisted Cowardly Cruise Ship

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: amethyst stead

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: charismatic associate

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: ...,....,,........



(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: pearly stirring stage

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: sickened dopamine



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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)