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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Massive indigo senate
  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...
Vermilion Stirring Home
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Massive indigo senate
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Odious infuriating milk
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Massive indigo senate
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Odious infuriating milk
  01/30/21
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Charismatic Stage Regret
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
magenta boltzmann
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Bossy Pontificating Crackhouse
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Bearded church circlehead
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
big roommate
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Gold Property
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Splenetic candlestick maker set
  01/30/21
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Vermilion Stirring Home
  01/30/21
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Massive indigo senate
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
elite wonderful internal respiration
  01/30/21
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Crawly translucent goyim base
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Slap-happy ruddy bawdyhouse knife
  01/30/21
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Unholy submissive cruise ship jew
  01/30/21
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Charismatic Stage Regret
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Splenetic candlestick maker set
  01/30/21
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marvelous whorehouse
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Copper temple
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
supple shaky institution deer antler
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Amethyst Spectacular Mental Disorder Ticket Booth
  01/30/21
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Charismatic Stage Regret
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Wine factory reset button national
  01/30/21
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Massive indigo senate
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
cowardly hell azn
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
up-to-no-good provocative locus
  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: Massive indigo senate

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: Vermilion Stirring Home

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: Massive indigo senate

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: Odious infuriating milk

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: Massive indigo senate

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: Odious infuriating milk

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: Charismatic Stage Regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2.#49782561)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: magenta boltzmann

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: Bossy Pontificating Crackhouse

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: Bearded church circlehead

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: big roommate

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: Gold Property



(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: Splenetic candlestick maker set



(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: Vermilion Stirring Home



(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: Massive indigo senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2.#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: elite wonderful internal respiration

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: Crawly translucent goyim base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2.#41856569)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Slap-happy ruddy bawdyhouse knife

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: Unholy submissive cruise ship jew



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Charismatic Stage Regret



(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: Splenetic candlestick maker set

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: marvelous whorehouse



(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: Copper temple

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: supple shaky institution deer antler

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: Amethyst Spectacular Mental Disorder Ticket Booth

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: Charismatic Stage Regret



(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: Wine factory reset button national

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: Massive indigo senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2.#43938643)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: cowardly hell azn

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: up-to-no-good provocative locus

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)