The transaction is subject to, among other things, approval by CourtLink shareholders.

LexisNexis has built a strong reputation as the indispensable knowledge partner to legal professionals, providing information solutions and services ranging from research products to integrated practice management and portal technology, to electronic filing and court record access.

“We firmly believe the online services and emerging markets CourtLink has pioneered will bring tremendous value to the legal profession at large,” said Lou Andreozzi, president and chief executive officer, North American Legal Markets, LexisNexis.

“CourtLink is pleased to join the LexisNexis team,” said Henry Givray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CourtLink. “LexisNexis brings in-depth industry knowledge, strong respected relationships within the legal community and valuable resources that will increase our court reach as well as enhance our service offerings for both online court record access and electronic filing.”

“The synergies between LexisNexis and CourtLink are strong and will benefit the customers of both companies as well as the legal and business communities,” said Ann Fullenkamp, who will become chief operating officer of CourtLink after the acquisition is finalized. “As an innovator, LexisNexis always seeks to join forces with other innovators in the field. We are proud to now have CourtLink join our full suite of best-of-breed services,” said Fullenkamp, who as senior vice president of emerging markets at LexisNexis was instrumental in bringing the two companies together.

CourtLink will continue to operate from its Bellevue, WA, headquarters after the acquisition, operating as a separate business unit of LexisNexis. Givray will be a key member of the transition team through March 2002. Givray said that while asked to remain with the company after the transition he has decided to explore other CEO opportunities.

The first to create a single online platform for both electronically accessing records and filing documents with the courts, CourtLink developed the industry’s leading electronic filing service, as well as the leading court record access services.

With 90 courts online and over one million pages electronically filed and served per month, CourtLink’s electronic filing service is enabling legal professionals to electronically file, serve and process legal documents, as well as to maintain electronic case files. In Colorado, CourtLink has also developed and operates the first and only statewide e-filing system.

CourtLink electronic access services enable users to search and retrieve case information from more than 200 million court records in 1,400 federal, state and local court systems through a single online source. Users include law firms, banks, insurance and title companies, screening and investigation agencies and the media.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis Group is a leading global provider of information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax, regulatory and other information. Operating units include authoritative legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell; Matthew Bender, the Butterworths companies in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Africa, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur in France; Abeledo-Perrot in Argentina; Orac in Austria and other leading companies around the world, all members of Reed Elsevier plc. The LexisNexis™ services combine searchable access to over three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content. LexisNexis delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge solutions for the enterprise, answering questions and solving problems. For more information, please visit www.lexisnexis.com.

About CourtLink

CourtLink Corporation is provider of the most comprehensive online platform for searching court record information and electronically filing legal documents. CourtLink services include eAccess (CaseStream^® and Classic), eFile (JusticeLink^®), and the Company’s court integration solution, eFM (electronic File Management). CourtLink Corp., a member of the Internet Capital Group (ICG) network of companies (NASDAQ: ICGE), has forged strategic partnerships and alliances within the legal and business communities, including an exclusive e-filing partnership and distribution agreement with LexisNexis and an e-filing partnership with ACS, the market leader in justice software and services. CourtLink customers include the nation's 100 largest law firms, as well as leading banks, insurance companies, screening and investigation firms, and media companies. For additional information about electronic filing or online access to the nation's courts, please visit www.courtlink.com.