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Are Lawyers Getting Clients From Twitter?

By Bruce Carton

I'm a fan of Twitter, and have been using the service since early this year both personally (@brucecarton) and as a news feed for securities litigation news (@SecuritiesD). I'm also interested in its use and value to lawyers, particularly to lawyers in the "BigLaw" world. Looking at it through this BigLaw lens, I have been pretty skepticaI thus far as to Twitter's potential as a business development tool for lawyers (as opposed to a more generic PR/news distribution tool for law firm news and announcements, which seems like a no-brainer use to me). Stories are starting to pop up more often these days, however, about lawyers who have used Twitter to actually get new, paying clients. On Tuesday, Lawyers USA ran an interesting article about several lawyers who had successfully turned their activity on Twitter into clients. These include: Brett Trout (@bretttrout), an intellectual property attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, who has gotten six new clients since joining Twitter a year-and-a-half ago. Deena Burgess (@DeenaEsq), a New York attorney who started her own firm a year ago, and who has turned five Twitter followers into clients. James Walker (@cruiselaw), an attorney in South Miami, Fla., whose practice is devoted solely...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).