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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
effete feces
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Excitant chapel filthpig
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Excitant chapel filthpig
  01/30/21
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Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
mauve halford
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
multi-colored henna nibblets university
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
vibrant lay
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Heady magical toilet seat
  01/30/21
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Copper Dashing Scourge Upon The Earth
  01/30/21
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Stirring Free-loading Ratface
  01/30/21
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effete feces
  01/30/21
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Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Electric location
  01/30/21
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Fantasy-prone saffron indian lodge pozpig
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
charismatic faggotry
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bateful church
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Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Stirring Free-loading Ratface
  01/30/21
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ivory flatulent stage
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Ultramarine misunderstood piazza friendly grandma
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Jet-lagged mentally impaired psychic
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
contagious personal credit line stage
  01/30/21
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Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Supple principal's office wagecucks
  01/30/21
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Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
trip messiness
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Indecent sienna rigor
  03/31/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation

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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49839103)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: effete feces

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=2Elisa#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation

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=2Elisa#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Excitant chapel filthpig

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=2Elisa#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation

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=2Elisa#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Excitant chapel filthpig

i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856157)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: mauve halford

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=2Elisa#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: multi-colored henna nibblets university

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=2Elisa#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: vibrant lay

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=2Elisa#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Heady magical toilet seat

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=2Elisa#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Copper Dashing Scourge Upon The Earth



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Stirring Free-loading Ratface



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: effete feces



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Electric location

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856187)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone saffron indian lodge pozpig



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: charismatic faggotry

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856862)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: bateful church



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Stirring Free-loading Ratface

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=2Elisa#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: ivory flatulent stage



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Ultramarine misunderstood piazza friendly grandma

TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856594)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Jet-lagged mentally impaired psychic

Some teach it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856798)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: contagious personal credit line stage

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=2Elisa#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: Federal charcoal antidepressant drug circlehead



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Supple principal's office wagecucks

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856904)



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Laughsome Preventive Strike Mediation



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: trip messiness

i practically invented "e"-discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#49782565)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Indecent sienna rigor

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=2Elisa#49782597)