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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Irate community account heaven
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
ruddy station
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
ruddy station
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Wine mexican
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
arousing aquamarine temple
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Magenta beady-eyed box office nowag
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Low-t persian goyim
  01/30/21
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Fluffy Sadistic Mother People Who Are Hurt
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cerebral peach set
  01/30/21
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Irate community account heaven
  01/30/21
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Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Multi-colored Avocado Hall
  01/30/21
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razzle drunken blood rage
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Misanthropic nibblets
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Transparent exciting place of business
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
cerebral peach set
  01/30/21
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Bronze ratface juggernaut
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
chocolate indian lodge
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
floppy immigrant
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Crawly rough-skinned personal credit line
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
contagious site
  01/30/21
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Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce
  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: Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce

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=2#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Irate community account heaven

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=2#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce

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=2#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: ruddy station

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=2#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce

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=2#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: ruddy station

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

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Wine mexican

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=2#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: arousing aquamarine temple

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=2#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Magenta beady-eyed box office nowag

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=2#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Low-t persian goyim

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=2#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Fluffy Sadistic Mother People Who Are Hurt



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: cerebral peach set



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Irate community account heaven



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Multi-colored Avocado Hall

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: razzle drunken blood rage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Misanthropic nibblets

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Transparent exciting place of business



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: cerebral peach set

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=2#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Bronze ratface juggernaut



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: chocolate indian lodge

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: floppy immigrant

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: Crawly rough-skinned personal credit line

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=2#41856896)



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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: contagious site

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Appetizing Erotic Pit Lettuce



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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=2#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=2#49782597)