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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
comical juggernaut generalized bond
  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...
brindle piazza boltzmann
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
comical juggernaut generalized bond
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
sick orchestra pit
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
comical juggernaut generalized bond
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
sick orchestra pit
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Emerald vivacious school cafeteria
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
Galvanic mentally impaired public bath
  01/30/21
yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Brilliant duck-like laser beams incel
  01/30/21
Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
Magenta useless brakes theater
  01/30/21
I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
Motley startled black woman
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greedy aphrodisiac mediation
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Hideous stage nibblets
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brindle piazza boltzmann
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comical juggernaut generalized bond
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
heady boistinker university
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Well-lubricated diverse trump supporter
  01/30/21
it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
exciting unhinged dilemma
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Aggressive Selfie Meetinghouse
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Emerald vivacious school cafeteria
  03/31/26
My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Hideous stage nibblets
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Nighttime Rehab
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
painfully honest charismatic field clown
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
opaque round eye kitty cat
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
High-end hairless jew
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Emerald vivacious school cafeteria
  03/31/26
kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
Fuchsia scourge upon the earth preventive strike
  01/30/21
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comical juggernaut generalized bond
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Alcoholic business firm mad-dog skullcap
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
khaki crawly lay
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
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"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: comical juggernaut generalized bond

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

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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: brindle piazza boltzmann

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: comical juggernaut generalized bond

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: sick orchestra pit

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: comical juggernaut generalized bond

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: sick orchestra pit

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: Emerald vivacious school cafeteria



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Galvanic mentally impaired public bath

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: Brilliant duck-like laser beams incel

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: Magenta useless brakes theater

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: Motley startled 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: greedy aphrodisiac mediation



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Hideous stage nibblets



(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: brindle piazza boltzmann



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: comical juggernaut generalized bond



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: heady boistinker university

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: Well-lubricated diverse trump supporter



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: exciting unhinged dilemma

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: Aggressive Selfie Meetinghouse



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



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: Emerald vivacious school cafeteria



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Hideous stage nibblets

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: Nighttime Rehab



(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: painfully honest charismatic field clown

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: opaque round eye kitty cat

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: High-end hairless jew

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: Emerald vivacious school cafeteria



(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: Fuchsia scourge upon the earth preventive strike

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: comical juggernaut generalized bond



(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: Alcoholic business firm mad-dog skullcap

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: khaki crawly lay

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)