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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
tantric friendly grandma trump supporter
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Vibrant bespoke dingle berry
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
tantric friendly grandma trump supporter
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
aromatic striped hyena windowlicker
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
tantric friendly grandma trump supporter
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
aromatic striped hyena windowlicker
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
high-end histrionic nursing home pocket flask
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Rusted Godawful National
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
citrine cruise ship people who are hurt
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Angry Property Partner
  01/30/21
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Cerebral orange kitchen yarmulke
  01/30/21
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Dun tripping rigpig brethren
  01/30/21
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Vibrant bespoke dingle berry
  01/30/21
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tantric friendly grandma trump supporter
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
massive cheese-eating hospital dysfunction
  01/30/21
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Aqua goyim
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
beady-eyed idiot
  01/30/21
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zippy black woman
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Dun tripping rigpig brethren
  01/30/21
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Boyish walnut parlour
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Carnelian startled church building cuckold
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Shivering rehab
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Razzle clear home laser beams
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Laughsome library
  01/30/21
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tantric friendly grandma trump supporter
  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: tantric friendly grandma trump supporter

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=2Reputation#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Vibrant bespoke dingle berry

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=2Reputation#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: tantric friendly grandma trump supporter

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=2Reputation#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: aromatic striped hyena windowlicker

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=2Reputation#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: tantric friendly grandma trump supporter

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=2Reputation#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: aromatic striped hyena windowlicker

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

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: high-end histrionic nursing home pocket flask

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=2Reputation#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Rusted Godawful National

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=2Reputation#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: citrine cruise ship people who are hurt

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=2Reputation#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Angry Property Partner

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=2Reputation#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Cerebral orange kitchen yarmulke



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Dun tripping rigpig brethren



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Vibrant bespoke dingle berry



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: tantric friendly grandma trump supporter



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: massive cheese-eating hospital dysfunction

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Aqua goyim



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: beady-eyed idiot

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: zippy black woman



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Dun tripping rigpig brethren

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=2Reputation#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Boyish walnut parlour



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Carnelian startled church building cuckold

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Shivering rehab

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Razzle clear home laser beams

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=2Reputation#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: ...,....,,........



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Laughsome library

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: tantric friendly grandma trump supporter



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



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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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#49782597)