Award TrophyDoes Having Lots of Twitter Followers Mean You're a Good Lawyer?
The practicing lawyers with the biggest Twitter followings tend to be high-level government veterans
October 22, 2019 at 08:18 PM
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The Federal Trade Commission's suit against a company that sold fake Twitter followers to clients including (unnamed) law firm partners got me wondering: Which lawyers have the biggest following on Twitter? And is there any obvious correlation to their desirability as counsel?
As a starting point, I looked at the 2019 finalists for The American Lawyer's Litigator of the Year. (Grand prize winner to be announced on December 4!)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Ted Boutrous has an impressive 21,700 followers. But what about the others?
Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink has 7,790 followers—solid.
Shay Dvoretzky of Jones Day has 188 followers and Sharon Nelles of Sullivan & Cromwell has 159, but I don't think either of them are really trying. (Dvoretzky has posted three tweets since 2014.)
Cravath's Evan Chesler? As far as I can tell, he's not on Twitter—and somehow, I don't see him going for a secret "Pierre Delecto" account a la Mitt Romney (even though I think the two of them look like long-lost brothers #amirite?).
I also didn't find David Lender of Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Sigrid McCawley of Boies Schiller Flexner or Rob Saunders of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Twitter.
My no-duh takeaway: There's no obvious relationship between excellence in lawyering and number of Twitter followers.
The practicing lawyers with the biggest Twitter followings tend to be high-level government veterans. For example, King & Spalding's Sally Yates has 816,600 followers; Covington & Burling's Eric Holder has 509,600 and Hogan Lovells' Neal Katyal has 323,700.
Wachtell's George Conway has 718,400 followers. While he's not a former government lawyer, he's certainly got interesting ties to the current administration. Also, I wonder how he has time to practice law these days, given his volume of tweets.
Then there's Michael Avenatti with 768,500 followers and Rudy Giuliani with 503,400. You can debate among yourselves whether they count as practicing lawyers—but hey, they still beat Judge Judy, who has 117,600 followers.
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