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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
titillating travel guidebook filthpig
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
navy trailer park
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
titillating travel guidebook filthpig
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Khaki stag film
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
titillating travel guidebook filthpig
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Khaki stag film
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
dull deep hairy legs
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
razzle-dazzle stage preventive strike
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
crusty saffron sweet tailpipe doctorate
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
rose soul-stirring wrinkle
  01/30/21
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Floppy step-uncle's house
  01/30/21
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Fishy Curious Plaza
  01/30/21
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navy trailer park
  01/30/21
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titillating travel guidebook filthpig
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Slate abode
  01/30/21
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Territorial bistre corn cake
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
brass confused clown state
  01/30/21
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trip kitchen
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Fishy Curious Plaza
  01/30/21
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Bespoke Police Squad
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
angry brunch generalized bond
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Razzmatazz Stead
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
boyish drab gay wizard pit
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
bateful community account
  01/30/21
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titillating travel guidebook filthpig
  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: titillating travel guidebook filthpig

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: navy trailer park

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: titillating travel guidebook filthpig

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: Khaki stag film

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: titillating travel guidebook filthpig

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: Khaki stag film

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: dull deep hairy legs

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: razzle-dazzle stage preventive strike

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: crusty saffron sweet tailpipe doctorate

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: rose soul-stirring wrinkle

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: Floppy step-uncle's house



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Fishy Curious Plaza



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: navy trailer park



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: titillating travel guidebook filthpig



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Slate abode

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: Territorial bistre corn cake



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: brass confused clown state

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: trip kitchen



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Fishy Curious Plaza

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: Bespoke Police Squad



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: angry brunch generalized bond

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: Razzmatazz Stead

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: boyish drab gay wizard pit

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: bateful community account

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: titillating travel guidebook filthpig



(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)