LexisNexis Accelerates Legal Research with Launch of My Lexis

LexisNexis Accelerates Legal Research with Launch of My Lexis

    Business Editors

    DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2005--LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, has launched an easy-to-customize start page called My Lexis(TM) to small law firms, corporate counsel, tax professionals, and federal agencies. The new page, a tab on the lexis.com(R) service, helps save valuable research time by allowing users to search multiple sources at once and customize the page with research components.
    "With the launch of My Lexis, we've made it even easier for our customers to access their favorite research tools and review the results of a comprehensive search," said Ann Fullenkamp, senior vice president and publisher at LexisNexis. "We envision My Lexis will be the starting point both for experienced users who want to create a custom launching point for research and for new users who need a quick and simple way to jump-start their research."
    Small law firms, corporate counsel, tax professionals, and federal agency lexis.com customers can access the new My Lexis site by choosing the My Lexis tab on the research home page. To view an online demonstration of My Lexis, visit www.lexisnexis.com/mylexispressroom.

    The new features of My Lexis include:

    Quick Search

    This feature allows users to search multiple legal, analytical, and news sources simultaneously. After entering search terms and selecting a jurisdiction or practice area, users can select source types and choose from specific sources to search.

    Summarized results set

    After searching multiple sources, the results are displayed in a tabbed results set that shows the number of results by source type.

    Custom drag and drop search components - components offered will vary by market

    My Lexis encourages users to create a custom research section, with the ability to add, remove and re-arrange a selection of LexisNexis research components.

--	Company Dossier - Basic and in-depth business information on more than 35 million global companies.
--	Forms by Area of Law - Quickly pull up forms from hundreds of Matthew Bender(R) treatises.
--	Get & Print - Retrieve and deliver multiple Shepard's(R) Citations Service reports or full-text documents directly to a printer or browser.
--	Get by Citation - Find a legal document by citation and Shepardize(R).
--	Get by Party Name - Use party name to search for documents and Shepardize.
--	Search the News - Quickly search news articles from thousands of publications.
--	Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Search - Search over one million lawyers and law firms in 160 countries by name, geographic location, practice area, firm size, and language.
--	Public Records - Locate an individual or a company with the LexisNexis collection of public records.
--	Legislative History - Track legislative info, like committee hearings and Congressional Record, or even legislative history by area of law
--	Administrative Agency Materials - Stay updated on regulatory matters with access to agency decisions and rulings from a variety of federal agencies.
--	Statutes & Regs - Find the law and regulations in multiple states.
--	Tax News & Legal Developments - The latest information from respected tax attorneys and professionals.

    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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CONTACT: LexisNexis Holly Michael, 937-865-8852 holly.michael@lexisnexis.com

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