I don't know whether it's a manifestation of the dearth of new projects this summer, a quirk of the attorney doing the interviews or a new trend in the document review world but potential attorneys for an upcoming project are required to:
1. already be registered with the agency; an attorney who wasn't registered was told it was full. Granted, that agency has hundreds of attorneys registered and it seems many agencies don't worry about new people unless they can't fill a project with attorneys already listed;
2. send an updated resume;
3. pass the conflicts check, which for many people has been a difficulty with this firm. I think everyone I know has been passed over due to a conflict for this firm at one time or another;
4. be selected for an interview; and
5. become one of the chosen ones.
I don't know how many reviewers will be working on this project, but it seems silly for the attorney to waste a couple of days on 15-minute interviews for a project slated to last less than six months, especially since it seems likely that all candidates will be experienced document reviewers, many of whom will have already worked on projects for this firm. The cynical part of my brain expects that it's to increase billable hours. Then again, the client may require interviews.
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