What truly defines success for law firms? While revenue growth, revenue per lawyer, profit per equity partner, and billable hours are obvious metrics, increasingly sophisticated and nuanced benchmarks are reshaping the way firms measure performance.

Social media is now a powerful tool for burnishing a firm's reputation and recruiting top talent. Kudos then, to Baker McKenzie which has amassed a record 500,000-plus followers across all platforms and pole-vaulted into the most-followed Top 100 firm on LinkedIn. (Even pre-merger, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling together couldn't top those numbers.)