This story has been updated with new information from D. Casey Flaherty.

Is your firm in a beauty contest for work for Kia Motors? To get and keep the work, you’ll want to quickly identify your sharpest associates, and be prepared for them to fail a four-part audit of their technology skills. At a Thursday afternoon panel at the second annual E-Discovery Institute’s 2012 Leadership Summit, held at the Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Ritz Carlton, a lively — and very interactive — panel and audience discussed the hiring tactics, which no doubt send more chills down Big Law than the scariest Halloween costume.