JurisPro Database Expands LexisNexis Expert Witness Resources; LexisNe

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    DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2005--Continuing efforts to provide customers a wide-ranging selection of investigative sources and products, LexisNexis U.S. today announced its agreement with JurisPro Inc. to make JurisPro's national directory of expert witnesses in over 4,000 areas of expertise available to LexisNexis subscribers. LexisNexis is a leading provider of legal, news and business information.
    JurisPro was formed by a group of practicing attorneys who recognized the need for a powerful expert witness database - one that provides more than just experts' names and credentials and includes a wealth of information about each expert. The result is the JurisPro Expert Witness Directory, which LexisNexis(R) subscribers can access online through the familiar lexis.com(R) interface, enabling them to:

-- Review experts' credentials and areas of expertise

-- Link out to experts' Web sites and contact experts via email, fax, phone or mail

-- Link directly to JurisPro's Web site and:

-- Download and print experts' full curriculum vitae and online photos

-- Hear experts speak to get an idea of how they present themselves

-- Read articles experts have written that demonstrate their expertise

-- Contact experts' references

-- Research experts' backgrounds as expert witnesses, including education, experience, occasions used as experts in court, and much more

    "Experts are critical to litigation, as their testimony often makes or breaks a case. That's why this agreement with JurisPro is so beneficial to our customers," said Michele Vivona, Chief Operating Officer, LexisNexis. "With experts being used in virtually all litigation, we realized the importance of the JurisPro database and see this agreement as further growing our strong commitment to our customers to be their indispensable information and litigation research provider."
    "JurisPro is pleased to provide LexisNexis subscribers with a comprehensive database they can use to find and research expert witnesses, and to get a competitive advantage," said Jim Robinson, Esq., president of JurisPro and Education Chair for the Law Practice Management & Technology Section, Calif. State Bar Association. "We look forward to working with the company and its subscribers to meet and exceed their legal research needs."
    With this agreement, LexisNexis subscribers will receive from JurisPro one of the most comprehensive national directories of expert witnesses available. The database's national content is up-to-date and reliable, helping attorneys to find the right expert for the right case or to learn more about an adverse party's expert.
    LexisNexis will make the directory available not only as an individual source and as part of its combined expert directory source, but also in LexisNexis Analyzer, a unique product which enables researchers to run a single search on an expert through over 15 relevant databases, including case law, verdict reports, legal news, expert directories and more, to quickly gain in-depth information about experts.

    About JurisPro

    JurisPro Inc. is a professional marketing company that maintains an online directory of expert witnesses for the legal community, the most substantive directory for expert witnesses available. Through the company's services, legal professionals can find and properly retain a qualified expert, evaluate an expert to whom they were referred, or learn information about their opponent's expert. For more information on JurisPro and its services, visit www.JurisPro.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, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
    In the United States, LexisNexis(R) Total Research System (www.lexisnexis.com) offers an extensive range of online and print legal and regulatory information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals reach confident decisions and comply with the law.

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