Web-Savvy Industry Peers Salute LexisNexis^™
Online legal research pioneer recognized for two Web-based legal services, garners the SIIA Corporate Achievement Award

DAYTON, OH, April 16, 2002 - Web-savvy industry peers voted LexisNexis™ at lexis.com and lexisONE^sm, the legal industry’s leading Web-based legal research services, the best in their class in the 17^th annual Codie Awards judging by the members of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA).

The company also won the SIIA Corporate Achievement Award for its pioneering development of the first online legal research service, launched in 1973.

“This 17th Annual Codie Awards carries on the tradition of celebrating the best of the best in the software and information industry." said Ken Wasch, president of SIIA, in announcing the awards. “As the only peer-reviewed awards program of its kind in this constantly evolving field, winning a Codie Award is indeed a high honor. SIIA congratulates LexisNexis. With these wins, LexisNexis again demonstrates its dominance in the online information industry."

The winning LexisNexis product categories were Best Online Government or Legal Information Service, LexisNexis at lexis.com, and Best Online Professional Reference Product or Service, lexisONE.

“Just days ago, we were voted the favorite legal research tool by the techno-savvy lawyer community, our customers. And now the SIIA industry awards. This is the best validation we could receive that LexisNexis drives confident decision-making by delivering comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information services via easy-to-use desktop tools,” said Lou Andreozzi, president and CEO, North American Legal Markets for LexisNexis. “We are gratified to receive this recognition from our colleagues in the software and information industry and thank Ken Wasch and the SIIA organization for its sponsorship.”

Codie Awards recognize the best in software and digital content products and services.  More than 320 companies submitted more than 700 nominations. The awards were announced Monday night at the SIIA annual conference in San Diego and awards ceremony.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis™ is the global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. Its online services combine searchable access to over three billion documents from thousands of sources. A member of Reed Elsevier plc [NYSE:  ENL; NYSE:  RUK], LexisNexis is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, USA, and does business in 100 countries with 12,000 employees worldwide. The company 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. In addition to LexisNexis at www.lexis, the leading Web-based legal research service, LexisNexis includes some the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.