Flagship Site Now Features Objective Information About Law Firm Activities in Various Areas of Practice, “Top 10” Lists of Law Firms in Different Categories and Other Decision-Support Information for Buyers of Legal Services

March 19, 2007 — New Providence, NJ, March 19, 2007 - LexisNexis, the leading provider of client development solutions for the legal profession, today unveiled an enhanced version of martindale.com®, its Web site for members of the legal profession that has served as the leading online resource for facilitating connections between buyers and sellers of legal services since its groundbreaking launch more than 10 years ago.

In the newest release of martindale.com, the company introduces a wide range of rich, decision support information that will help in-house counsel and other sophisticated buyers of legal services conduct more thorough evaluations of prospective law firms.

“Martindale-Hubbell drives lawyer and law firm credentials to buyers of legal services,” said Barry Solomon, vice president, Martindale-Hubbell.  “Starting with this release of martindale.com and throughout the coming months, we will continue to expose deeper firm and lawyer information to corporate counsel, simultaneously increasing traffic to firms’ Web sites and enhancing corporate counsel’s ability to select the right lawyer for a specific matter.”

Activities Data, one of the new information resources now available on martindale.com, includes detailed information about litigation and mergers & acquisitions activity for individual law firms that helps corporate counsel quickly gauge a firm’s depth of experience.  Activity data, now available on martindale.com, provides information on specific cases and deals handled.  This third-party data, from LexisNexis® atVantage ™, serves to deepen and validate a law firm’s profile by providing objective summaries of the firm’s experience in specific areas of practice.

A new series of rotating “Top 10” lists will feature the Top 10 firms in the U.S. in a variety of categories, such as the volume of litigation handled, the number of M&A transactions conducted, the percentage of lawyers in the firm who are Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rated, and the most frequently visited firm profiles on martindale.com.  These lists will provide martindale.com users with a reason to return to the site frequently and check out how firms compare with each other in various categories.

Other new martindale.com features now include:

●  Capabilities Data – A valuable resource that gives
    corporate counsel an instant understanding of any law
    firm’s operational infrastructure by displaying answers to
    15 specific questions, such as e-billing capacities and
    records management procedures, that paint an image of a
    firm’s operational capabilities for delivering legal services
    to clients;
●   Snapshot Report – A concise assessment of a firm that
    captures key elements of the firm profile in an easy-to-
    share, executive summary format for presentation to
    committees, boards of directors or others involved in the
    law firm selection process; and
●  Enhanced Side-by-Side Comparison – martindale.com
   offers an enhanced side-by-side law firm comparison tool
   that aggregates Activities, Capabilities and all other new
   data now available on the site, driving faster and smarter
   law firm evaluations with a single view that contains
   critical comparative information.

“With more than 3 million monthly searches, martindale.com serves as the ideal showcase for law firms to display their lawyers’ experience to clients and prospective clients at the place and time that a buying decision is being made,” said Joseph Douress, senior vice president of client development services for LexisNexis.  “By integrating deep a