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LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell to Provide Client Development Products and Services to Sands Anderson Marks & Miller
Virginia-based firm will leverage martindale.com, Legal Articles and
Group Profiles database to showcase credentials of attorneys and firm
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ, January 18, 2006 - LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell announced today that it has inked a new agreement with the law firm of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller to provide a range of client development products for the firm.
In addition to extending the biographical listings for Sands Anderson attorneys in the renowned Martindale-Hubbell® attorney database, the firm has purchased two online client development products: Legal Articles and Group Profiles.
Sands Anderson attorneys will now be able to publish timely legal articles they have written on the searchable Legal Articles database on www.martindale.com. As part of this agreement, articles published by Sands Anderson’s lawyers automatically will be harvested and made accessible to corporate counsel and other buyers of legal services via the Martindale-Hubbell global legal network.
"Martindale.com is already one of the leading producers of visitors to our site, so we wanted to expand the range of information we publish in Martindale-Hubbell in order to further increase traffic from martindale.com to our Web site," said C. Thomas Ebel, president of Richmond, Va.-based Sands Anderson Marks & Miller.
The firm also will detail its industry practices on the searchable Group Profiles database at martindale.com. Martindale-Hubbell Group Profiles product provides expanded listing opportunities to showcase specific expertise by practice areas or industry groups. By investing in a Group Profile listing, the firm hopes to drive additional online traffic from martindale.com visitors seeking industry-specific legal counsel.
"We’re excited about this new partnership with Martindale-Hubbell because we believe it will help ensure that our firm’s capabilities and our attorneys’ specific areas of legal expertise are more effectively communicated to clients and prospects around the world," said Ebel.
"As law firms become more sophisticated in marketing, they are looking to maximize their exposure to the global marketplace as efficiently as possible," said Mike Walsh, senior vice president of large and national law firm markets at LexisNexis. "LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell continues to demonstrate its value by showcasing law firms and lawyers, and connecting them to buyers of legal services."
LexisNexis Martindale Hubbell offers client development products and services within a growing LexisNexis portfolio of industry-leading networking and marketing tools designed to help law firms grow their practice. These client development tools are part of the LexisNexis Total Practice Solution, helping law firms achieve excellence in the business and practice of law.
About Sands Anderson
Founded more than150 years ago, Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, PC is grounded on a philosophy and commitment to excellence, integrity and reliability. Sands Anderson offers a comprehensive range of transactional and litigation legal services to businesses, financial institutions, governments, individuals and insurance companies. Clients have access to the resources and breadth of experience of a large national multi-practice firm while experiencing a personal level of service and direct personal contact with attorneys that is most often found in smaller firms. In 2005, Sands Anderson ranked 11th among Virginia law firms by attorney census, according to Virginia Lawyers Weekly.
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.
LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® (www.martindale.com) is the leading provider of client development solutions for the legal profession, partnering with its law firm customers to meet their practice development goals. The company offers opportunities to speak at industry conferences, publish legal articles and showcase expertise through a wide range of online products. The Martindale-Hubbell database of more than 1 million lawyers and law firms, accessible at www.martindale.com and www.lawyers.com, is the number-one lawyer directory on the Internet (as measured by Nielsen//NetRatings). The company provides lawyers, business executives and consumers with detailed information to help them identify, evaluate and select legal counsel.
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