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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Milky Razzmatazz Stage
  01/30/21
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
boyish heaven
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Milky Razzmatazz Stage
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Iridescent dingle berry
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Milky Razzmatazz Stage
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Iridescent dingle berry
  01/30/21
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Spectacular Rigpig
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
burgundy odious sweet tailpipe police squad
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
onyx titillating mexican toaster
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Curious Cuck
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Razzle Chapel Black Woman
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Nighttime Brethren
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histrionic house selfie
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boyish heaven
  01/30/21
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Milky Razzmatazz Stage
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
red violent ratface rehab
  01/30/21
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lemon supple corner
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
electric crotch nibblets
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arousing hairy legs range
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Spectacular Rigpig
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
histrionic house selfie
  01/30/21
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multi-colored arrogant abode
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
diverse olive hell
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
180 cocky idea he suggested
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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Spectacular Rigpig
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Wonderful business firm sneaky criminal
  01/30/21
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Milky Razzmatazz Stage
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
overrated snowy sandwich tank
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
citrine church
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
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  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
sealclubber
  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Milky Razzmatazz Stage

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: April 24th, 2026 4:19 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#49839103)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:00 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Fuck yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: boyish 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: Milky Razzmatazz Stage

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: Iridescent dingle berry

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: Milky Razzmatazz Stage

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: Iridescent dingle berry

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: Spectacular Rigpig



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: burgundy odious sweet tailpipe police squad

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: onyx titillating mexican toaster

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: Curious Cuck

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: Razzle Chapel Black Woman

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: Nighttime Brethren



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#41856139)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: histrionic house selfie



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: boyish heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#41856150)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Milky Razzmatazz Stage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: red violent ratface rehab

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: lemon supple corner



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: electric crotch 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: arousing hairy legs range



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Spectacular Rigpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#49782562)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: histrionic house selfie

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: multi-colored arrogant abode



(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: diverse olive hell

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: 180 cocky idea he suggested

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: thriller startled double fault stag film

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: Spectacular Rigpig



(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: Wonderful business firm sneaky criminal

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: Milky Razzmatazz Stage



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: overrated snowy sandwich tank

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: citrine church

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)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: ...,....,,........

Sounds like we all had the same professor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#49839788)



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Date: April 24th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: sealclubber

"why don't law schools teach [topic]"?

guy who didn't go to law school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2)#49839789)