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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
abnormal claret roast beef pervert
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Vigorous Immigrant
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
abnormal claret roast beef pervert
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
provocative slimy new version
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
abnormal claret roast beef pervert
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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180 alcoholic hell gay wizard
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Vermilion useless windowlicker
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
aphrodisiac iridescent mother
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Brindle learning disabled theater stage
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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violent dead kitchen partner
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Vigorous Immigrant
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abnormal claret roast beef pervert
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Drunken Halford Dysfunction
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buck-toothed den background story
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
slate patrolman
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180 alcoholic hell gay wizard
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
violent dead kitchen partner
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scarlet talented state corn cake
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
pearly exciting french chef market
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
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  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
titillating senate main people
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180 alcoholic hell gay wizard
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Soul-stirring School Cafeteria
  01/30/21
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abnormal claret roast beef pervert
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
frozen geriatric site blood rage
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
supple drab mexican
  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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  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: abnormal claret roast beef 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: Vigorous Immigrant

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: abnormal claret roast beef 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: provocative slimy new version

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: abnormal claret roast beef 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: provocative slimy new version

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: 180 alcoholic hell gay wizard



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Vermilion useless windowlicker

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: aphrodisiac iridescent mother

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: Brindle learning disabled theater stage

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: Ungodly shivering famous landscape painting

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: maize talking police squad shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2/#41856139)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: violent dead kitchen partner



(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: Vigorous Immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2/#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: abnormal claret roast beef pervert



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Drunken Halford Dysfunction

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: buck-toothed den background story



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: slate patrolman

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: Laughsome cobalt business firm nibblets



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: 180 alcoholic hell gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2/#49782562)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: violent dead kitchen partner

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: scarlet talented state corn cake



(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: pearly exciting french chef market

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: lilac motley parlor mad-dog skullcap

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: titillating senate main people

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: 180 alcoholic hell gay wizard



(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: Soul-stirring School Cafeteria

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: abnormal claret roast beef pervert



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: frozen geriatric site blood rage

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: supple drab mexican

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)