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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
elite principal's office reading party
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Dashing office trust fund
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
elite principal's office reading party
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Motley lay
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
elite principal's office reading party
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Motley lay
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Stirring Pozpig
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Vibrant address
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
bonkers idiot sex offender
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
multi-colored whorehouse main people
  01/30/21
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ivory faggotry
  01/30/21
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Exciting insanely creepy casino
  01/30/21
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Dashing office trust fund
  01/30/21
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elite principal's office reading party
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Chest-beating degenerate corner
  01/30/21
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Pale Narrow-minded Queen Of The Night Ticket Booth
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
thriller gold point milk
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slate theater
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Exciting insanely creepy casino
  01/30/21
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pearly kitchen psychic
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Crimson house lettuce
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Drab territorial field ape
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Yellow stead cuck
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Nubile plaza
  01/30/21
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elite principal's office reading party
  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: elite principal's office reading party

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: Dashing office trust fund

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: elite principal's office reading party

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: Motley lay

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: elite principal's office reading party

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: Motley lay

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
Author: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Stirring Pozpig

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: Vibrant address

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: bonkers idiot sex offender

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: multi-colored whorehouse main people

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: ivory faggotry



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Exciting insanely creepy casino



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Dashing office trust fund



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: elite principal's office reading party



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Chest-beating degenerate corner

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: Pale Narrow-minded Queen Of The Night Ticket Booth



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: thriller gold point milk

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: slate theater



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Exciting insanely creepy casino

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: pearly kitchen psychic



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Crimson house lettuce

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: Drab territorial field ape

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: Yellow stead cuck

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: Nubile plaza

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: elite principal's office reading party



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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)