CLE Leaders Law.com and LexisNexis Announce Alliance to Expand Online Continuing Legal Education

Business Wire, August 1, 2006

NEW YORK & DAYTON, Ohio -- ALM's Law.com(R) and LexisNexis, a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced an alliance that will expand and enhance online continuing legal education options for attorneys.

Under the agreement, the Law.com CLE Center will become the exclusive source for LexisNexis Mealey's(TM) online CLE courses, providing lawyers with a single Web destination that delivers a wide array of online options for meeting legal professional education requirements.

Law.com and the LexisNexis(R) Mealey(TM) business unit will jointly market LexisNexis(R) Mealey's(TM) online CLE programs through the Law.com CLE Center and other Law.com channels.

"We are delighted to partner with LexisNexis on this initiative, which brings together two of the profession's recognized leaders in CLE," said Jennifer Collins, managing director of Law.com. "We look forward to adding the deep and focused industry content available from LexisNexis, in areas such as insurance and pharmaceuticals, to our online CLE courses and to facilitating access to our combined offerings on the Law.com CLE Center."

The alliance provides added options for attorneys whose work commitments and time constraints often prevent them from attending in-person training.

"Up to this point, the only way to access Mealey's conference content was to attend a program. Now it's available online through this partnership," said Sharon Boothe Senior Director, Mealey's Conferences. "Attorneys who want to take online CLE and learn about niche areas of litigation now have another option."

The Law.com CLE Center is a leading provider of online continuing legal education programs that can be completed for MCLE credit in more than 25 states. The Law.com CLE Center saves attorneys time and money, while providing unmatched scheduling flexibility. Programs are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. The Center provides the highest quality online education experience for attorneys, as well as a staff of trained CLE Counselors offering expert, personalized customer service.

Attorneys can continue to access all of Mealey's conference products, including live conferences, conferences on CD or DVD and handbook materials through the LexisNexis Mealey's Professional Development Center at www.mealeys.com/conferences.> LexisNexis Mealey's is just one tool in the portfolio of Total Practice Solutions LexisNexis offers its customers to help them achieve success in the business and practice of law. LexisNexis offerings are designed for the way legal professionals work, in all of the areas essential to their success, including Client Development, Research Solutions, Practice Management and Litigation Services

About Law.com and ALM

Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning ALM national and regional legal publications online. Headquartered in New York City, ALM is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and business communities. ALM currently owns and publishes 38 national and regional magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer(R), Corporate Counsel(R), The National Law Journal(R) and Real Estate Forum(R). ALM's Law.com(R) is the Web's leading legal news and information network, while ALM's GlobeSt.com(R) is the Web's leading information source for commercial real estate professionals. Other ALM businesses include book and newsletter publishing, court verdict and settlement reporting, production of professional trade shows, conferences and educational seminars, market research and content distribution. ALM was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. More information on ALM's businesses and services is available on the Web at www.alm.com.

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, Mealeys, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

In the United States, LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) offers its customers total practice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and print legal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals grow their business, win cases and manage their practice.