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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
pearl rigor
  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...
floppy bespoke kitchen
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
pearl rigor
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Excitant Trailer Park
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
pearl rigor
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Excitant Trailer Park
  01/30/21
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Indecent diverse location puppy
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
bat-shit-crazy giraffe parlor
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
ivory box office
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Blue Useless Brakes Sneaky Criminal
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Boyish area
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haunting digit ratio cruise ship
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beady-eyed nudist university boiling water
  01/30/21
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floppy bespoke kitchen
  01/30/21
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pearl rigor
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
seedy turdskin
  01/30/21
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Crimson Garrison Striped Hyena
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
racy thirsty public bath keepsake machete
  01/30/21
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Vermilion histrionic orchestra pit volcanic crater
  01/30/21
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Indecent diverse location puppy
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
beady-eyed nudist university boiling water
  01/30/21
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adventurous stubborn piazza
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Slate Very Tactful Sweet Tailpipe Boistinker
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Trip Mustard Church Potus
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
ultramarine aromatic range
  01/30/21
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Indecent diverse location puppy
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Cracking Whorehouse Foreskin
  01/30/21
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pearl rigor
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
opaque mildly autistic theater stage rigpig
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Stirring center chad
  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: pearl rigor

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: floppy bespoke kitchen

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: pearl rigor

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: Excitant Trailer Park

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: pearl rigor

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: Excitant Trailer Park

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: Indecent diverse location puppy



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy giraffe parlor

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: ivory box office

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: Blue Useless Brakes Sneaky Criminal

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: Boyish area

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: haunting digit ratio cruise ship



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: beady-eyed nudist university boiling water



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: floppy bespoke kitchen



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: pearl rigor



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: seedy turdskin

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: Crimson Garrison Striped Hyena



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: racy thirsty public bath keepsake machete

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: Vermilion histrionic orchestra pit volcanic crater



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Indecent diverse location puppy



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: beady-eyed nudist university boiling water

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: adventurous stubborn piazza



(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: Slate Very Tactful Sweet Tailpipe Boistinker

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: Trip Mustard Church Potus

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: ultramarine aromatic range

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: Indecent diverse location puppy



(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: Cracking Whorehouse Foreskin

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: pearl rigor



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: opaque mildly autistic theater stage rigpig

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: Stirring center chad

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)