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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Naked multi-billionaire
  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...
Wonderful Bright Dingle Berry
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Naked multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
sticky parlor
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Naked multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
sticky parlor
  01/30/21
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Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Harsh hell death wish
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Thriller Mint Mediation Hominid
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Stubborn national hissy fit
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Adventurous demanding striped hyena address
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hairraiser ocher market
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Citrine gaping
  01/30/21
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Wonderful Bright Dingle Berry
  01/30/21
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Naked multi-billionaire
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
lavender shrine
  01/30/21
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spruce tanning salon
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
awkward topaz weed whacker theater
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Motley coral alpha
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Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Citrine gaping
  01/30/21
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histrionic stag film
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
cracking abode
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
Deranged Stirring Den
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
self-centered hall
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Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
emerald stimulating dilemma idea he suggested
  01/30/21
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Naked multi-billionaire
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
abusive lay dopamine
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
painfully honest field
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  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: Naked 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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49839783)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Wonderful Bright Dingle Berry

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=2Elisa#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Naked 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=2Elisa#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: sticky parlor

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=2Elisa#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Naked 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=2Elisa#41856123)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: sticky parlor

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

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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Harsh hell death wish

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=2Elisa#41856114)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Thriller Mint Mediation Hominid

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=2Elisa#41856612)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Stubborn national hissy fit

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=2Elisa#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Adventurous demanding striped hyena address

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=2Elisa#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: hairraiser ocher market



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Citrine gaping



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Wonderful Bright Dingle Berry



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Naked multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#41856155)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: lavender shrine

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: spruce tanning salon



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: awkward topaz weed whacker theater

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Motley coral alpha



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Citrine gaping

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=2Elisa#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: histrionic stag film



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: cracking abode

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Deranged Stirring Den

Some teach it.

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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: self-centered hall

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=2Elisa#41856896)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: Vigorous Scourge Upon The Earth



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: emerald stimulating dilemma idea he suggested

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Naked multi-billionaire



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: abusive lay dopamine

i practically invented "e"-discovery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2Elisa#49782565)



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: painfully honest field

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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49839789)