Esurance Selects LexisNexis CounselLink

Companies choose Web-based all-in-one legal spend and matter management tool to improve office efficiencies

July 10, 2007 — New York, NY, July 10, 2007 - LexisNexis Examen, a leading provider of legal spend and matter management solutions to corporate legal departments and claims organizations, today announced Esurance^® chose LexisNexis^® CounselLink™ to improve control of their legal expense and streamline their legal department operations. Esurance joins over 20 new customers that have recently selected CounselLink as their comprehensive Web-based legal spend and matter management solution.

 The CounselLink service ( www.lexisnexis.com/counsellink) provides corporate counsel and claims departments the ability to:

• Reduce outside counsel costs through consistent
  application of billing rules, without the need for special
  codes.
• Improve review efficiency via paperless, automated invoice
  routing.
• Manage all matter details collaboratively, via secure online
   application, with assigned counsel from budgets to
  calendars to associated documents.
• Analyze spend and law firm performance with best-in-class
  reporting.
• Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other requirements with
  accurate and auditable information.

Since it doesn’t require any additional software, hardware, or in-house maintenance, CounselLink is a cost effective Web-based solution that saves corporate legal departments and claims departments countless hours of paperwork and administrative duties.  In addition, CounselLink can be scaled to fit companies of any size.

“As an Internet-based company, we wanted a program that was Web-based, which helps support our growing claims department and to manage the law firms representing our insureds.  We also wanted strong reporting capabilities so we could better track our expenses and better manage litigation processes.  CounselLink provided a solution which easily addressed all of our needs,” said Stephen Geist, claims counsel for Esurance. 

Marcus Linden, vice president and chief operating officer for LexisNexis Examen, said, “One of the reasons companies are signing on to use CounselLink is because we developed this solution with direct input from our customers. Our customer advisory board includes representatives from small to large corporations—and gives them a venue to provide real feedback on how we can improve our offerings to make their lives easier.” He added, “By implementing CounselLink, corporate legal departments and insurance claims departments have access to a total solution for e-billing and matter management in a single hosted, secure application.”

About LexisNexis
LexisNexis^® ( www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis^® and Nexis^® research services, to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] ( www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.

LexisNexis^® Examen^® ( www.examen.com) is a leader in providing corporate law departments and claims organizations with solutions to manage their matters, legal spend, and outside counsel relationships. Our solutions enable clients to capture their complete legal sp