If my decisions were not second-guessed, I'd probably take long-term people with lots of contract experience over people who graduated 2010 who would have been BIGLAW if not for ITE. I figure the 2010 grads have no experience and are probably jaded and bitter about their life prospects whereas the long-term folks are more resigned to their fates. But in reality, I'm just looking for school names the client will have heard of. UG counts for this, too. One resume from a dude who was Cornell UG. I bet he hatesself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21204560)

If you think the ultimate goal of this project is to get the best people possible rather than to satisfy the client so that s/he THINKS the reviewers are the best people possible then you, bro, don't understand BIGLAW.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205754)

1) This is a doc review job--there will be no Lexis or Westlaw necessary or even available.

2) I didn't even know there was such a thing. How does one become "certified" in Lexis/Westlaw?

These people graduated from law school. Comes off on a resume like "good speller" or "able to successfully navigate the subway to arrive at the office." Terrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21204678)

We get a list of clients from everyone separate from the resumes because of potential conflicts, so even to the extent that I gave a shit whose emails you were reading last week (and I don't), I'd already have that info available. Putting it on your resume just makes you look like a douchebag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205654)

In terms of what I've seen from people graduated in 2007 or later, I've seen plenty from local schools that used to send a lot more people to BIGLAW than they do now (Fordham et al) and some from non-T14 upper Tier I schools not in this area. Think Minnesota, U Washington, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205719)

Client>You>Staffing Agency>Doc Reviewer?

What are the rates billed out along the way and how much does the reviewer end up making?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205667)

Ultimately the client will sign the contract with the staffing agency. So the money goes from client to staffing agency. The agency pays the reviewers.

I understand sometimes the firm signs the contract with the staffing agency and then bills the client like we do with other third-party vendors like printers and court reporters, but that's not how this particular client works.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205783)

I just figure as much as people around here talk about people being assfucked by ITE and COA clerk Harvard grads working for $10/hr as temps or whatever the hell people are saying these days, people might want to know what's up from someone who is actually looking at actual resumes for actual people seeking work as actual contract attorneys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21205885)

But if I had to give a general overview of the pool I'm seeing I'd say it is mostly a mix of 1) recent grads who look median-ish at law schools where you'd have to be in the top to get BIGLAW plus people, 2) people 4-8 years out who look like they probably had lower ranked BIGLAW jobs or SA positions or maybe MIDLAW jobs that they probably lost due to ITE 3) people 8+ years out, some who used to work at firms some not, who seem to have sort of bounced around for 5-20+ years doing various shitlaw kinds of things like in house at crappy company or staff attorney at lower BIGLAW or whatever and who I'm guessing got ITE-fucked and find anything comparable, 4) people who, for lack of a better description, seem like actual career contract attorneys (why anyone would do this, I have no idea, though one of the guys had an interesting enough resume that I googled him and found out he was an actor).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2008125&forum_id=2#21206195)