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

is this because most law students would quit this profession...
Passionate plaza skinny woman
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Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  04/24/26
Fuck yes
...,....,,........
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it's so fact specific. they'd have to include like a fake pa...
Mint School
  01/30/21
they could at least teach basic written objections under the...
Passionate plaza skinny woman
  01/30/21
been doing it 6 years now and i still am kind of clueless. o...
dashing shitlib shrine
  01/30/21
the point is that it provides billable hours which helps mak...
Passionate plaza skinny woman
  01/30/21
i suppose this would explain why none of it really makes any...
dashing shitlib shrine
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talented cream hospital
  03/31/26
Couldn't they use real ones from historical cases just like ...
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yes here is a black marker make sure the redact the names, b...
Aggressive chocolate athletic conference
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Black marker is TTT. If your scanner's contrast or black lev...
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I have a plan of doing a barbri type real practical law firm...
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poppy national security agency
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Charismatic house-broken public bath
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Mint School
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Passionate plaza skinny woman
  01/30/21
and send them nasty emails in the early AM
haunting big love of her life
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it should be a fellowship for top 10%ers
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talented cream hospital
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My LS had pretrial practice and trial practice classes (elec...
Charismatic house-broken public bath
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internet-worthy double fault
  01/30/21
TTT's teach these kinds of shitlaw classes, no?
arousing mustard theater
  01/30/21
Some teach it.
olive potus locus
  01/30/21
Because the law profs who would have to teach it don't have ...
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talented cream hospital
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kitchen sink discovery requests are much more preferable to ...
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Passionate plaza skinny woman
  02/09/22
i practically invented "e"-discovery
Plum immigrant
  03/31/26
I took a class on it in law school. Professor spent half th...
Soul-stirring Sandwich Mental Disorder
  03/31/26
Sounds like we all had the same professor
...,....,,........
  04/24/26
"why don't law schools teach [topic]"? guy who di...
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  04/24/26


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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: Passionate plaza skinny woman

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))



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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: Mint School

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: Passionate plaza skinny woman

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: dashing shitlib shrine

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: Passionate plaza skinny woman

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: dashing shitlib shrine

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: talented cream hospital



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: racy elite property

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: Aggressive chocolate athletic conference

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: heady crusty casino becky

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: fuchsia curious useless brakes

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: poppy national security agency



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Charismatic house-broken public bath



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:30 PM
Author: Mint School



(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: Passionate plaza skinny woman



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: haunting big love of her life

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: glittery fanboi marketing idea



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Date: January 30th, 2021 2:59 PM
Author: Confused karate

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: violet nursing home mad-dog skullcap



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:12 AM
Author: talented cream hospital



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



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Date: January 30th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Charismatic house-broken public bath

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: internet-worthy double fault



(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: arousing mustard theater

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: olive potus locus

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: Ruddy Exciting Candlestick Maker Gas Station

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: talented cream hospital



(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: thirsty territorial stag film bbw

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: Passionate plaza skinny woman



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Date: March 31st, 2026 9:14 AM
Author: Plum immigrant

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: Soul-stirring Sandwich Mental Disorder

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)