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Legal Tweet: Which BigLaw Firms Are Dabbling in Social Media

Published: Jan 06, 2011

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Today’s post is inspired by a Twitter conversation from yesterday about law firms’ use of social media. Law firms have definitely been building web presences with sleek website designs and engaging blogs, but I wasn’t sure how many of them had ventured into the Twitter frontier. To be honest, I wasn’t very optimistic that I’d find many law firms on Twitter. But my curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to see which firms from the 2011 Vault Law 100 are tweeting.

My results proved me wrong: around 50% of the 2011 Vault Law 100 firms are on Twitter (and you thought lawyers were anti-social).* Below is a list of these firms (in alphabetical order) and their Twitter IDs so that you can add them to your list of law-tweeps. If your firm has a Twitter account, but you don’t see it below, send me an email so I can add you to the list (mksheridan@vault.com). And if your firm has multiple Twitter accounts (practice areas, recruiting, etc.), and you’d like them added to the list, please let me know.

1. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP - @akin_gump
2.Allen & Overy LLP - @AllenOvery, @AllenOveryCSR
3.Alston & Bird LLP - @Alston_and_Bird
4.Arent Fox LLP - @arentfox
5.Baker & McKenzie - @BMCKAPM
6.Blank Rome LLP - @BlankRome (no tweets as of 1/6/2011)
7.Bracewell & Giuliani LLP - @BGLLP
8.Bryan Cave LLP - @BryanCaveLLP (no tweets or website link as of 1/6/2011)
9.Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP - @CahillGordon (only 1 tweet as if 1/6/2011)
10.Crowell & Moring LLP - @Crowell_Moring
11.Dechert LLP - @dechertllp
12.Dickstein Shapiro LLP – @Dickstein_LLP
13.DLA Piper - @DLA_Piper_News, @DLARealEstate
14.Fenwick & West LLP - @fenwickwest
15.Fish & Richardson P.C. - @FishRichardson
16.Foley & Lardner LLP - @FoleyandLardner
17.Fulbright & Jaworsky L.L.P. - @Fulbright, @FulbrightIP (@FullbrightIP does not have a website link as of 1/6/2011)
18.Goodwin Procter LLP - @goodwinprocter
19.Greenberg Traurig, LLP - @GT_Law
20.Hogan Lovells (London) - @HoganLovellsLdn
21.Howrey LLP - @HowreyLLP
22.Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP - @KattenLaw
23.King & Spalding - @kslaw
24.Kirkland & Ellis LLP - @Kirkland_Ellis
25.Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP - @kramerlevin
26.Latham & Watkins LLP - @Latham_Watkins
(no tweets as of 1/6/2011) 27.Linklaters LLP(Asia) - @LinklatersAsia
28. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP - @manatt
29.Mayer Brown - @Mayer_Brown, @Mayer_Brown_UK (@Mayer_Brown_UK does not have a website link or tweets as of 1/6/2011)
30.McDermott Will & Emery LLP - @McDermottLaw
31.McGuireWoods LLP - @McGuireWoodsLLP(no website link as of 1/6/2011)<
32. Nixon Peabody LLP - @NixonPeabodyLLP
33.O’Melveny & Myers LLP - @omelvenymyers (no website link as of 1/6/2011)
34.Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP - @Orrick
35.Patton Boggs LLP - @pattonboggs
36.Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP - @PaulWeissLLP (no tweets as of 1/6/2011)
37.Perkins Coie LLP - @PerkinsCoieLLP
38.Reed Smith LLP - @reedsmithllp
39. Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP - @SRZLawFirm (no tweets as of 1/6/2011)
40.Seyfarth Shaw LLP - @seyfarthshawLLP
41.Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP - @SkaddenArps (no tweets as of 1/6/2011)
42.Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. - @Squire_Sanders
43.Steptoe & Johnson LLP - @Steptoe_Johnson
44.Troutman Sanders LLP - @TStweets
45.Vinson & Elkins LLP - @VinsonandElkins
46.Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP - @WeilGotshal
47.Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - @wilsonsonsini
48.Winston & Strawn LLP - @WinstonLaw

* Please note, I found accounts for certain firms that did not include logos, websites, or tweets. I did not include those accounts on this list, as it is unclear if those accounts actually belong to the firms. If the account included at least one of those three items, however, I listed it, but I noted which items the account lacks.

Twitter List Sources:
Law Firm list by @rslavinsky
Large Law Firm list by @kirbybrunclik
LawFirms list by @tqmock
Law Firms list by @Into_Linkletter
Law-Firms list by @stevenongenaet

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