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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Motley Bonkers Lodge
  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...
snowy cruise ship deer antler
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Motley Bonkers Lodge
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Vivacious Roommate
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Motley Bonkers Lodge
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Vivacious Roommate
  01/30/21
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painfully honest transparent lay round eye
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
diverse zombie-like heaven
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
garnet misanthropic feces
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
bright autistic hall
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
mildly autistic lavender sandwich
  01/30/21
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histrionic flatulent native internal respiration
  01/30/21
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Swashbuckling citrine parlor giraffe
  01/30/21
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snowy cruise ship deer antler
  01/30/21
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Motley Bonkers Lodge
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Black fragrant field
  01/30/21
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Cobalt internet-worthy senate
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
pungent background story
  01/30/21
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Sooty Overrated State Cuckold
  01/30/21
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painfully honest transparent lay round eye
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Swashbuckling citrine parlor giraffe
  01/30/21
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Carmine nursing home azn
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Ivory codepig
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
odious plum hospital
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
avocado adventurous stock car point
  01/30/21
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painfully honest transparent lay round eye
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Greedy trip wagecucks
  01/30/21
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Motley Bonkers Lodge
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Onyx Stead
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Seedy trust fund gunner
  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: Motley Bonkers Lodge

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: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: snowy cruise ship deer antler

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: Motley Bonkers Lodge

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: Vivacious Roommate

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: Motley Bonkers Lodge

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: Vivacious Roommate

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: painfully honest transparent lay round eye



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: diverse zombie-like heaven

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: garnet misanthropic feces

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: bright autistic hall

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: mildly autistic lavender sandwich

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: histrionic flatulent native internal respiration



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Swashbuckling citrine parlor giraffe



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: snowy cruise ship deer antler



(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: Motley Bonkers Lodge



(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: Black fragrant field

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: Cobalt internet-worthy senate



(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: pungent background story

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: Sooty Overrated State Cuckold



(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: painfully honest transparent lay round eye



(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: Swashbuckling citrine parlor giraffe

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: Carmine nursing home azn



(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: Ivory codepig

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: odious plum hospital

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: avocado adventurous stock car point

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: painfully honest transparent lay round eye



(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: Greedy trip 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: Motley Bonkers Lodge



(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: Onyx Stead

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: Seedy trust fund gunner

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)



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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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49839789)