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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Talented national
  01/30/21
it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
arousing well-lubricated nursing home
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Talented national
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
Domesticated Slippery Business Firm
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Talented national
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
Domesticated Slippery Business Firm
  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
At-the-ready parlour jewess
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
metal heady french chef
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Blathering house-broken library boltzmann
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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Self-centered Sanctuary
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Lascivious shimmering menage
  01/30/21
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arousing well-lubricated nursing home
  01/30/21
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Talented national
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
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  01/30/21
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  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Lascivious shimmering menage
  01/30/21
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scarlet boyish haunted graveyard
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Razzle-dazzle sapphire area
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
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Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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  01/30/21
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...,....,,........
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Underhanded lemon state mother
  01/30/21
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Talented national
  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: Talented national

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=2Reputation#41856046)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: arousing well-lubricated nursing home

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=2Reputation#41856058)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Talented national

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=2Reputation#41856067)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Domesticated Slippery Business Firm

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=2Reputation#41856106)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Talented national

the point is that it provides billable hours which helps make a select few people rich

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Domesticated Slippery Business Firm

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

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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: At-the-ready parlour jewess

Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like how business schools do "case studies"?

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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: metal heady french chef

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Blathering house-broken library boltzmann

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=2Reputation#41856987)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: concupiscible bright place of business base

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=2Reputation#41856129)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Self-centered Sanctuary



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Lascivious shimmering menage



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: arousing well-lubricated nursing home



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Talented national



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Exciting plum legend chad

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: primrose affirmative action famous landscape painting



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Saffron apoplectic location

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: Dashing gay nibblets spot



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Lascivious shimmering menage

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=2Reputation#41856133)



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: scarlet boyish haunted graveyard



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Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle sapphire area

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



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: mauve up-to-no-good old irish cottage stag film

Some teach it.

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Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: walnut indian lodge party of the first part

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=2Reputation#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: Underhanded lemon state mother

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Talented national



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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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#49782597)