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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Aphrodisiac Resort Queen Of The Night
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
marvelous cheese-eating stage striped hyena
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
marvelous cheese-eating stage striped hyena
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Odious Parlour Mediation
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Shivering Dashing State Cumskin
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Onyx rambunctious incel bawdyhouse
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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  01/30/21
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comical khaki site pervert
  01/30/21
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Dull range
  01/30/21
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Aphrodisiac Resort Queen Of The Night
  01/30/21
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Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
coral nubile native
  01/30/21
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cobalt turdskin
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
fluffy friendly grandma
  01/30/21
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Pearl wonderful kitty cat
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Dull range
  01/30/21
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Ungodly Pit Hairy Legs
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Tantric chocolate immigrant sweet tailpipe
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
harsh idea he suggested giraffe
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
Puce telephone
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
embarrassed to the bone poppy ape
  01/30/21
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Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire
  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: Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire

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: Aphrodisiac Resort Queen Of The Night

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: Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire

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: marvelous cheese-eating stage striped hyena

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: Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire

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: marvelous cheese-eating stage striped hyena

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: Odious Parlour Mediation

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: Shivering Dashing State 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: Onyx rambunctious incel bawdyhouse

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: Excitant Gay Antidepressant Drug 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=2],#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: comical khaki site pervert



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Dull range



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Resort Queen Of The Night



(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: Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: coral nubile native

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: cobalt turdskin



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: fluffy friendly grandma

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: Pearl wonderful kitty cat



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Dull range

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: Ungodly Pit Hairy Legs



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Tantric chocolate immigrant sweet tailpipe

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: harsh idea he suggested giraffe

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: Puce telephone

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: ...,....,,........



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone poppy ape

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: Boyish Cerise Business Firm Multi-billionaire



(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: 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)