LexisNexis® Applied Discovery® Earns Top Rankings in Annual E-Discovery Industry Survey; 2006 Socha-Gelbmann Survey Results Underscore Applied Discovery Leadership in Providing Attorneys High Quality E-Discovery Services

Business Wire, August 22, 2006

SEATTLE -- Results from the nation's largest and most comprehensive annual survey of the $1.2 billion(1) e-discovery industry found that attorneys rate LexisNexis(R) Applied Discovery(R) among the very best e-discovery services.

According to results of the 2006 Socha-Gelbmann E-Discovery Survey, law firms and corporations ranked Applied Discovery as one of the top five(2) e-discovery services overall. The results were based on combined scores in the areas of Experience, Capacity, Types of Services, Software Usage, Law Firm Rankings, Corporate Rankings and Revenue. Applied Discovery earned additional top-five(2) rankings in the categories of Experience and Law Firm Rankings, and in the specific e-discovery stages of Collection, Processing, Review and Analysis.

The survey also reported that U.S. law firms use Applied Discovery more frequently than any other single e-discovery service provider.

"We are extremely pleased that Applied Discovery has registered so positively with the legal community," said Michele Vivona, senior vice president and general manager for LexisNexis Litigation Services. "We believe this speaks to the quality of our offerings and how much law firms can depend on us to deliver the best e-discovery results to help them win."

Additionally, law firms and corporations rated Applied Discovery highly in specific areas important to them. For example, both law firms and corporations rated data collection and processing as the most in-demand e-discovery services. This demand corresponds directly to the top-five ranking of Applied Discovery by firms and corporations for e-discovery process areas of Collection and Processing.

Recently acquired and added to the LexisNexis(R) family of Litigation Services solutions, Concordance(TM) by Dataflight also received top marks from the legal community in the Socha-Gelbman survey. For the third year in a row, the survey found that more U.S. law firms use Concordances software for electronic discovery than any other single software application. Concordance finished number one in 5 out of 6 categories related to Software Usage in Law Firms, including Number of Seats, Satisfaction, and Usage by Stage (Processing, Review, Analysis and Production).

"It's most gratifying for us to see the survey results reporting that law firm users are more satisfied with their experience with Concordance than with any other single e-discovery software product," said Jeff Lipsman, founder of Dataflight Software(R) and creator of Concordance.

About Applied Discovery

Applied Discovery(R) is a leading provider of electronic discovery services to the nation's top law firms and corporate counsel groups. From data gathering and processing, review and production, Applied Discovery enables clients to search, organize, redact, number, and produce electronic documents. Applied Discovery also offers clients sophisticated digital forensics capabilities to recover, restore and track lost data or media, as well as a full-service consulting group.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of Reed Elsevier (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.

(1) 2006 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey

(2) The 2006 Socha-Gelbman survey did not report individual placements for certain results - choosing to report top ranked providers in categories of top five, top 6-10 and, in some cases, top 11-20.