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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Exhilarant coral patrolman
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
cracking sickened hominid regret
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Exhilarant coral patrolman
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
excitant judgmental school coffee pot
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Exhilarant coral patrolman
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
excitant judgmental school coffee pot
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
rusted quadroon senate
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Dull piazza cumskin
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Magenta multi-colored philosopher-king brunch
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Wonderful Sooty Locale Indirect Expression
  01/30/21
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Boyish love of her life hissy fit
  01/30/21
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Fragrant boistinker cruise ship
  01/30/21
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cracking sickened hominid regret
  01/30/21
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Exhilarant coral patrolman
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
lascivious site
  01/30/21
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Indecent lime laser beams
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
electric theatre organic girlfriend
  01/30/21
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misanthropic razzmatazz area
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Fragrant boistinker cruise ship
  01/30/21
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stimulating office liquid oxygen
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
spectacular stain
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Contagious Hilarious Friendly Grandma
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Abusive circlehead
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
diverse faggotry
  01/30/21
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Exhilarant coral patrolman
  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: Exhilarant coral patrolman

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: cracking sickened hominid regret

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: Exhilarant coral patrolman

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: excitant judgmental school coffee pot

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: Exhilarant coral patrolman

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: excitant judgmental school coffee pot

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: rusted quadroon senate

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: Dull piazza cumskin

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 multi-colored philosopher-king brunch

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: Wonderful Sooty Locale Indirect Expression

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: Boyish love of her life hissy fit



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Fragrant boistinker cruise ship



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: cracking sickened hominid regret



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Exhilarant coral patrolman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: lascivious site

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: Indecent lime laser beams



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: electric theatre organic girlfriend

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: misanthropic razzmatazz area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2#41856907)



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Fragrant boistinker cruise ship

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: stimulating office liquid oxygen



(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: spectacular stain

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: Contagious Hilarious Friendly Grandma

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: Abusive circlehead

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: diverse faggotry

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: Exhilarant coral patrolman



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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)