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Would he not have done moots in law school?
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2019 at 00:22 UTC*
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Comment by ryken at 28/03/2019 at 01:27 UTC
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Lawyer here and I never did any moot court or trial advocacy classes in law school. I’ve also never asked anyone a question under oath in 7 years of practice, and that’s not uncommon at all. My job mostly consists of sitting in my office and creating documents for people to sign, and then sending 8 million emails about those documents and how to sign them.
Comment by Edsgnat at 28/03/2019 at 00:57 UTC
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As said below, moots are appellate advocacy. They focus on writing briefs and oral arguments. My school does offer several civil litigation and discovery practicums where there is an emphasis on taking depos but they’re electives.
If I didn’t take one of those classes though, my only experience in law school with depos would be what I learned in first year Civ Pro, which is just the rules governing them. My sisters Civ Pro professor taught it more practically and she got experience being deposed, but that���s not what’s usual.
Comment by GrabSomePineMeat at 28/03/2019 at 03:53 UTC
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Depositions are a completely different beats than court. Much more general, objections don’t really count, and you ask questions that aren’t exactly important to the case. I don’t remember doing any depos in law school. They are much more an art than a skill. Takes experience. You need to see ones that suck before eve being able to do a good one.
Comment by stufff at 28/03/2019 at 05:54 UTC
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Law school is mostly useless and does little to prepare lawyers for actual practice. Everything outside of civil procedure and evidence is a waste of time
Comment by Atheist101 at 28/03/2019 at 11:40 UTC
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No, nobody teaches you how to do depositions.
Comment by Kendallsan at 28/03/2019 at 16:14 UTC
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I never did. Or mock trials. Not my area of interest. But I’m also not dumb enough to think I could litigate just because I’m an attorney - I do transactional stuff, I’d be lost at a deposition without plenty of training and practice beforehand. Just like an OB/GYN doc shouldn’t do brain surgery, attorneys need to stick to their areas of knowledge.