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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
painfully honest nursing home party of the first part
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
insecure address sweet tailpipe
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
painfully honest nursing home party of the first part
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Rose tripping bbw volcanic crater
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
painfully honest nursing home party of the first part
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
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Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
mahogany hell therapy
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Rebellious lay
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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insecure address sweet tailpipe
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painfully honest nursing home party of the first part
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Impertinent dun boistinker
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  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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...,....,,........
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Charcoal kitty
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Laughsome Flickering Library
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
insane school main people
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
offensive house
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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...,....,,........
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kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
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painfully honest nursing home party of the first part
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
t.rick o'treat panama
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
George Jetson
  03/31/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: painfully honest nursing home party of the first part

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: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: insecure address sweet tailpipe

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: painfully honest nursing home party of the first part

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: Rose tripping bbw volcanic crater

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: painfully honest nursing home party of the first part

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: Rose tripping bbw volcanic crater

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
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Domesticated erotic principal's office cuck

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: mahogany hell therapy

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: Rebellious 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: clear background story trust fund

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: Mind-boggling Chest-beating Persian



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Charcoal kitty



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: insecure address sweet tailpipe



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: painfully honest nursing home party of the first part



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Impertinent dun boistinker

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: Obsidian public bath



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: excitant mauve meetinghouse

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: mint round eye site



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Charcoal kitty

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: Laughsome Flickering Library



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: insane school main people

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: offensive house

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: Galvanic cruel-hearted weed whacker heaven

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Brindle toilet seat

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: painfully honest nursing home party of the first part



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

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: George Jetson

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)