A survey of corporate counsel at more than 215 global corporations highlighted US law firm Jones Day as the 'Best of the Best' in the category for the most technologically-savvy law firm.

The survey was conducted by the BTI Consulting Group, a Boston-based market research and management consulting firm.

Corporate respondents listed a number of specific items that they regarded as indicative of a firm's technological prowess. These included a robust extranet, strong database management, client newsletters and custom research tools.

On the balancing side, however, only 42.6% of respondent clients saw a law firm as deserving the distinction 'most tech-savvy'.

One general counsel who took part in the survey said: "We are more savvy in-house than any of our outside providers."

Stephen Brogan, Jones Day's managing partner, said: "Because we all use technology every day in almost everything we do to keep connected and to accomplish myriad business and legal tasks, it is easy to lose sight of the real benefit of technology: that is, making our clients' lives easier and saving them money."

He added: "We work hard to make sure we are factoring in the clients' needs every time we make an investment in technology."

However, in March this year, as part of deep IT cutbacks at Jones Day, all of the knowledge management (KM) personnel were made redundant, and the multimillion-dollar global KM programme – which had been running for two years – was eliminated.