\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Nudist Persian Pit
  01/30/21
...
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...
Glittery new version
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Nudist Persian Pit
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
jet-lagged green stage
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Nudist Persian Pit
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
jet-lagged green stage
  01/30/21
...
plum market
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
thriller dun turdskin
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Cracking institution volcanic crater
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Milky Exhilarant Stage
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
alcoholic love of her life station
  01/30/21
...
Gay At-the-ready Rehab
  01/30/21
...
Mind-boggling jap
  01/30/21
...
Glittery new version
  01/30/21
...
Nudist Persian Pit
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
Cobalt cerebral foreskin
  01/30/21
...
Lascivious People Who Are Hurt Coldplay Fan
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
Garnet french chef trust fund
  01/30/21
...
White Nursing Home Masturbator
  01/30/21
...
plum market
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Mind-boggling jap
  01/30/21
...
Sick indian lodge
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
Boyish kitty box office
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
flickering mint voyeur alpha
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
bearded ticket booth
  01/30/21
...
plum market
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Soul-stirring brunch nibblets
  01/30/21
...
Nudist Persian Pit
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
razzmatazz newt rigpig
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Big Puppy Electric Furnace
  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


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Nudist Persian Pit

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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

Fuck yes

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Glittery new version

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Nudist Persian Pit

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: jet-lagged green stage

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: Nudist Persian Pit

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: jet-lagged green stage

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: plum market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2#49782561)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: thriller dun turdskin

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Cracking institution volcanic crater

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: Milky Exhilarant Stage

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: alcoholic love of her life station

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Gay At-the-ready Rehab



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Mind-boggling jap



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Glittery new version



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Nudist Persian Pit



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Cobalt cerebral foreskin

and send them nasty emails in the early AM

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 1:56 PM
Author: Lascivious People Who Are Hurt Coldplay Fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4753846&forum_id=2#41856569)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Garnet french chef trust fund

it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 3:09 PM
Author: White Nursing Home Masturbator



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: plum market



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Mind-boggling jap

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Sick indian lodge



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Boyish kitty box office

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



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: flickering mint voyeur alpha

Some teach it.

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 3:07 PM
Author: bearded ticket booth

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 31st, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: plum market



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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 30th, 2021 3:08 PM
Author: Soul-stirring brunch nibblets

kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to asshole partners

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



Reply Favorite

Date: February 9th, 2022 4:22 PM
Author: Nudist Persian Pit



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: razzmatazz newt rigpig

i practically invented "e"-discovery

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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 31st, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Big Puppy Electric Furnace

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)