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LexisNexis and National Institute for Trial Advocacy Form Alliance
DAYTON, OH, March 08, 2005 - LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, announced today it has entered into an exclusive relationship with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA).
NITA, a non-profit educational organization, offers the nation’s leading trial advocacy programs and materials for attorneys and law school students NITA’s faculty of over 700 professors, judges and leading law firm litigators train and mentor attorneys in trial and other advocacy skills. Over the past 33 years, NITA has trained more than 80,000 attorneys.
With this new agreement LexisNexis will become a close partner in NITA’s mission to promote the effective and fair administration of justice. The relationship includes extensive LexisNexis participation in NITA’s public and in-house programs, joint publishing and program ventures involving both NITA and LexisNexis services and products, and extensive joint marketing activities associated with both organizations’ law firm and law school programs. In addition, LexisNexis will extend valuable offers to alumni of NITA programs.
Jeffrey Pfeifer, Vice President, LexisNexis Large Law Firm Market states, "We are excited by this opportunity to work closely with NITA. In recent years LexisNexis has significantly expanded its products and services for litigators, going beyond legal research resources to provide information and tools that address the critical advocacy needs of litigators in drafting, case investigation and discovery tasks. In aligning ourselves with the premier provider of trial advocacy programs in the United States, LexisNexis will now be able to offer litigators a broader range of advocacy skill training, resources and tools to accomplish these tasks more successfully."
"We are pleased to welcome LexisNexis to the NITA family," said Laurence Rose, Executive Director of NITA. "With this relationship we will strengthen our ability to provide cutting-edge education to the attorneys and law students who attend our programs and use our materials. As a sponsor of the NITA Tournament of Champions, LexisNexis will assist in recognizing excellent trial advocacy student teams from the finest law school advocacy programs. And as our partner, attorneys attending programs at our new National Education Center will gain direct access to LexisNexis products and services."
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (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® and Nexis® 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® 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.
About NITA
The National Institute for Trial Advocacy is internationally recognized for producing the finest trial advocacy training programs in the world. Founded in 1971, it is based upon the premise that skilled and ethical advocacy is a critical component of legal professionalism. NITA is dedicated to providing advocacy skills training to the entire profession, and provides access to its programs through scholarships, dedicated public service programming, and international outreach.
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