HarmonHomes.com, lawyers.com Provide Legal Information to Homebuyers Across the United States

Business Wire, April 10, 2003

Business Editors/Legal Writers/Real Estate Writers

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2003

HarmonHomes.com (www.HarmonHomes.com), a division of Trader Publishing Company and leading provider of online real estate classifieds, and lawyers.com (www.lawyers.com), the most popular Web resource for consumers and small business owners searching for a lawyer, are joining forces to provide homebuyers with legal information and resources to aid in the process of buying a home.

"We're pleased to partner with lawyers.com in providing homebuyers with these exciting legal resources," said Rick Murchake, general manager of HarmonHomes.com. "With lawyers.com as our exclusive lawyer directory partner, we are able to offer key information regarding real estate attorneys to the thousands of homebuyers that visit HarmonHomes.com each day."

Through the "Legal Services" resource page on HarmonHomes.com, homebuyers will have the ability to access the lawyers.com database of attorneys across the nation. Site users will be able to research and locate an attorney who specializes in real estate law, within the local area where a property for sale is located.

The new feature will also be accessible from the top navigation bar on the HarmonHomes.com home page, from the top resource links on the home page and from an icon located in the center of the home page. Users will be directed to a co-branded page, both for HarmonHomes.com and lawyers.com, where they will have access to the national database provided by lawyers.com. In addition, homebuyers can also access the database when seeking more details about real estate listings, providing them with a fast and efficient way to locate an attorney in the same area as properties they are searching.

"With its vast selection of more than 150,000 online classified ads for homes for sale, HarmonHomes.com serves as an important Web destination for real estate professionals and homebuyers," said Paul Gazzolo, senior vice president of business development and marketing for Martindale-Hubbell, publisher of lawyers.com. "With the use of the lawyers.com database, visitors to HarmonHomes.com will now be able to quickly identify an attorney based on criteria such as location, lawyer or firm name, area of practice and fluency in particular foreign languages."

Headquartered in Virginia Beach, HarmonHomes.com is a leading provider of online real estate classified ads. As a division of Trader Publishing Company and part of the family of Trader Web sites, HarmonHomes.com provides a comprehensive homes-for-sale database for homebuyers while serving as a convenient and effective advertising forum for real estate professionals. For more information about advertising on HarmonHomes.com, call 888/632-6111 or visit www.HarmonHomes.com.

Lawyers.com is published by Martindale-Hubbell. The Martindale- Hubbell Legal Network is the number-one resource for information about the worldwide legal profession, and is consulted daily by lawyers, business executives and consumers. With more than 3 million searches per month, this unrivaled network connects lawyers and law firms with their clients and potential clients, facilitates communication between members of the legal profession, and makes available a wide range of biographical information and professional credentials regarding attorneys in private, corporate and government practice. It is powered by a database of more than 1 million lawyers and law firms around the world.

The Martindale-Hubbell Legal Network is available to users on the Internet at www.martindale.com; www.lawyers.com; lexis.com, the flagship legal research system from LexisNexis(TM); lexisONE(sm), the LexisNexis resource for small-practice legal professionals; LexisNexis services; on CD-ROM; and via the 23-volume Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell is part of the LexisNexis Group, a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc. For more information, visit www.martindale.com.