LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell and NACDL Sign Agreement to Extend Client Development Services to NACDL Members

Business Wire, March 1, 2005

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. -- LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R), the leading client development company for the legal profession, has entered into a strategic alliance with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) to make a variety of Web-based marketing services from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell more widely available to NACDL members.

Under terms of the new agreement, Martindale-Hubbell will work with the NACDL to educate its members about effective online marketing options they can use to better market their practices on the Internet. Among the options the company will offer to NACDL members are Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer HomePages, dynamic Web sites that provide a cost-effective channel for small law firms to present their credentials.

In addition, the NACDL will also be granted a free license to place Martindale-Hubbell's lawyers.com "Find A Lawyer" search box on its association Web site (www.nacdl.org). The lawyers.com search engine provides visitors with free, unlimited searches of the lawyers.com database of more than 440,000 lawyers and law firms worldwide. Users can search by criteria such as name, city, state, area of practice and even languages spoken.

"Law firms must make some difficult choices when deciding how to market their practices on the Web. NACDL members are no different and we look forward to working with them to develop strategies that will help them attract new clients," said Paul Gazzolo, chief operating officer of New Providence, N.J.-based LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. "We're excited about our relationship with the NACDL because it will enable more attorneys to showcase their qualifications on lawyers.com and will provide even more visibility for our attorney database."

About LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (www.martindale.com) is the leading client development company for the legal profession, partnering with its law firm customers to meet their practice development goals. The company offers opportunities to speak at industry conferences, publish legal articles and showcase expertise through a wide range of online products. The Martindale-Hubbell database of more than 1 million lawyers and law firms, accessible at www.martindale.com and www.lawyers.com, is the number-one lawyer directory on the Internet. The company provides lawyers, business executives and consumers with detailed information to help them identify, evaluate and select legal counsel.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

About NACDL

NACDL is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's more than 13,000 direct members -- and 90 state and local affiliate organizations with another 35,000 members -- include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.