Did BigLaw Snag Twitter Usernames, or Were They ‘Twitterjacked’?

Are some BigLaw firms suddenly Twitter-savvy? Or might someone else have seen an opportunity to "Twitterjack," after a law blogger pointed in a 2008 Securities Docket post to 35 available Twitter usernames that major legal partnerships should want to lock up?

Those are the questions posed in a Legal Blog Watch post today by Bruce Carton, a Securities Docket editor writing a guest column.

As yet, the answers apparently aren't known. Given the 100 percent registration between November and December 2008, of all 35 of the Twitter usernames to which Carton pointed in his earlier post (they included, for instance, @dlapiper, @jonesday and @akingump), Carton writes, he fears that Twitter-squatters may have gotten to work in snagging all of these brands.

So Carton has one final question: "BigLaw lawyers from these firms, do you think your firms care about this?"