In the next series of posts, we’ll dissect how the world’s top law firms manipulate the web to facilitate the practice of law. ¹

Following the chart described in last week’s webisode of “netTools 101: netTools Every Legal Professional Should Know,” we’ll start by defining BigLaw’s current web presence.

A firm will score 1 point for each category it fills in.  All firms will start off with three (3) points because the top row – phone, e-mail, and home page – are all a given for BigLaw.

In addition, a firm may receive five (+5) points for ease of navigation, accessibility, and/or advanced web savvy.

A firm may receive two (+2 ) points for creativity and/or engagement potential.

We’ll be looking for BigLaw Facebook profiles, LinkedIn profiles or groups, and Twitter accounts.

We’ll also search for blogs and podcasts (podcasts, again,  meaning any multipedia files: podcasts, video podcasts, webcasts, webinars, etc.)

To the extent possible, we’ll also determine how BigLaw interacts with the web and/or how it creates content, interprets data, and/or hosts any media files.

We’ll then compile and analyze our data.

BigLaw Tech Score Card

¹ “BigLaw” will include the top 100 firms who have physical offices in the United States as found on the most up-to-date Global100 and AMLAW100 lists (minus any firms that dissolved).

The List:

1.    Akerman Senterfitt
2.    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
3.    Allen & Overy
4.    Alston & Bird
5.    Arnold & Porter
6.    Baker & McKenzie
7.    Baker Hostetler
8.    Baker Botts
9.    Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll
10.    Bingham McCutchen
11.    Bracewell & Giuliani
12.    Bryan Cave
13.    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
14.    Cahill Gordon & Reindel
15.    Chadbourne & Parke
16.    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
17.    Clifford Chance
18.    Cooley Godward Kronish
19.    Covington
20.    Cravath Swaine & Moore
21.    Crowell & Moring
22.    Davis Polk & Wardwell
23.    Debevoise
24.    Dechert
25.    Dewey & LeBoeuf
26.    DLA Piper
27.    Dorsey & Whitney
28.    Drinker Biddle & Reath
29.    Duane Morris
30.    Faegre & Benson
31.    Fish & Richardson
32.    Foley &  Lardner
33.    Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
34.    Freshfields
35.    Fried Frank
36.    Fulbright & Jaworski
37.    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
38.    Goodwin Procter
39.    Greenberg Traurig
40.    Hogan & Hartson
41.    Holland & Knight
42.    Howrey
43.    Hughes Hubbard & Reed
44.    Hunton & Williams
45.    Jackson Lewis
46.    Jenner & Block
47.    Jones Day
48.    K&L Gates
49.    Katten Muchin Rosenman
50.    Kaye Scholer
51.    Kilpatrick Stockton
52.    King & Spalding
53.    Kirkland & Ellis
54.    Latham & Watkins
55.    Linklaters
56.    Littler Mendelson
57.    Lovells
58.    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
59.    Mayer Brown
60.    McDermott Will & Emery
61.    McGuire Woods
62.    McKenna Long & Aldridge
63.    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
64.    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
65.    Morrison & Foerster
66.    Nixon Peabody
67.    O’Melveny & Myers
68.    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
69.    Paul Hastings
70.    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
71.    Perkins Coie
72.    Pepper Hamilton
73.    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
74.    Proskauer Rose
75.    Quinn Emanuel Urquardt Oliver & Hedges
76.    Reed Smith
77.    Ropes & Gray
78.    Schulte Roth & Zabel
79.    Seyfarth Shaw
80.    Shearman & Sterling
81.    Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
82.    Shook Hardy & Bacon
83.    Sidley Austin
84.    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
85.    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
86.    Snell & Wilmer
87.    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
88.    Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
89.    Steptoe & Johnson
90.    Stroock & Stroock
91.    Sullivan & Cromwell
92.    Troutman Sanders
93.    Vinson & Elkins
94.    Wachtell
95.    Weil, Gotshal & Manges
96.    White & Case
97.    Willkie Farr & Gallagher
98.    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
99.    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
100.    Winston & Strawn