Nixon Peabody LLP Expands Relationship With EasyLink; EasyLink Desktop Fax Service Provides Secure, Rapid Document Delivery For Large Law Firm

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2001

Business and Technology Editors

EDISON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2001

EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), a leading global provider of outsourced messaging services to enterprises and service providers, including over 300 of the Fortune 500, today announced that Nixon Peabody LLP, one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the U.S., with offices in 13 cities, has implemented EasyLink Desktop Fax Services to send and receive fax documents electronically.

Nixon Peabody already uses EasyLink MailWatch Service, which protects against viruses and denial of service attacks and offers content-filtering and spam control. The firm has now added EasyLink Desktop Fax Services to enhance its communications efficiency. The E-mail to Fax application enables users to send documents from their computers that are delivered as faxed documents. The Fax to E-mail solution allows users to receive documents as e-mails that had originally been sent as faxes. EasyLink's service integrates with Nixon Peabody's e-mail system without any additional hardware or software.

According to Barbara Kunkel, IT Director of Nixon Peabody, "EasyLink's desktop fax solutions enhance the efficiency in which we are able to handle our clients' urgent needs because of the increased speed at which we are now able to send and receive critical documents."

Kunkel added, "In addition to speed, security and confidentiality are of major concern in any law firm. Our success with MailWatch has prompted us to broaden the deployment of services offered by EasyLink. With EasyLink Desktop Fax Services, when someone faxes us a document, the correspondence remains confidential because it will be delivered directly to a computer rather than to a fax machine where it can potentially be read by people other than to whom it is addressed."

Bill Fallon, Vice President, Marketing, of EasyLink, noted, "By streamlining Nixon Peabody's high-intensity document distribution, EasyLink was able to offer the firm a competitive edge due to the speed and security in which documents are now transmitted."

About EasyLink Services Corporation

EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), based in Edison, NJ, is a leading global provider of outsourced messaging services to enterprises and service providers. The Company, whose customers include over 300 of the Fortune 500, offers a comprehensive portfolio of messaging services to provide the essential communications infrastructure companies need to do business in today's 24x365 environment. EasyLink's solution set includes e-mail and groupware services including managed Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Internet e-mail services; boundary services that offer virus protection, spam control and content filtering for business e-mail systems; message delivery services such as EDI, telex, desktop fax, and broadcast and production messaging services; and professional services including managed services support, on-site applications management, help desk and staff augmentation services. For more information, please visit www.easylink.com.

This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of EasyLink. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.