American Lawyer Media Launch Data Sharing
LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® and American Lawyer Media Launch Data Sharing Arrangement Between Martindale.com and LegalMarketInfoNew Providence, NJ - Press Release - February 23, 2004 - LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, the leading client development company for the legal profession, today announced that it has signed an innovative online data sharing agreement with American Lawyer Media (ALM), the nation's leading source of news and information for the legal industry.
Under the new agreement, Martindale-Hubbell will add a number of new links within the law firm information listings that appear on martindale.com from which visitors can quickly access data from LegalMarketInfo, ALM's legal market intelligence service. The featured information includes proprietary ALM law firm rankings, including those from the most current Am Law 200, NLJ 250, Global 100, and Corporate Scorecard® results.
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Conversely, LMI will incorporate lawyer and law firm listings data from Martindale-Hubbell into its law firm business reports, which are marketed through www.legalmarketinfo.com. In addition, LMI will create a new link on the legalmarketinfo.com Web site that takes visitors directly to the martindale.com Lawyer Locator.
"This is an innovative agreement that could only be possible by bringing together the credible and independent data managed by two widely recognized leaders in law firm business intelligence," said Timothy B. Corcoran, vice president of business development and marketing for New Providence, N.J.-based LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. "As a result of this partnership, visitors to martindale.com will now have access to a wider array of information that will help them to evaluate law firms and better determine which firms are most likely to be a good match for their needs. Moreover, LegalMarketInfo's law firm reports will now include important information and law firm credentials from the Martindale-Hubbell database."
About Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell is the leading client development company for the legal profession and is the number-one resource for information about lawyers and law firms worldwide, consulted daily by lawyers, business executives and consumers. With more than 4 million searches per month, this unrivaled network connects lawyers and law firms with their clients and potential clients, facilitates communication between members of the legal profession, and makes available a wide range of biographical information and professional credentials regarding attorneys in private, corporate and government practice. It is powered by a database of more than 1 million lawyers and law firms around the world.
Martindale-Hubbell is also the leading provider of Web sites for lawyers and has recently announced a number of new products and services to facilitate client development initiatives for lawyers and law firms. These client development vehicles include opportunities to publish articles on the Web and in respected industry newsletters, invitations to speak at highly regarded professional conferences, and new products designed to market law firm practice area and industry groups. Martindale-Hubbell is part of the LexisNexis Group, a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc. For more information, visit www.martindale.com.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) is a global 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 research service, LexisNexis, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
About LegalMarketInfo
ALM's LegalMarketInfo, a product of American Lawyer Media's Research Division, offers market information, including business reports about individual law firms, custom research and interactive spreadsheet products based on ALM's database of leading industry surveys and rankings. For more information, go to www.legalmarketinfo.com.
About American Lawyer Media
Headquartered in New York City, ALM is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal industry. ALM currently owns and publishes 27 national and regional legal magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer® and The National Law Journal®. ALM's law.com® is the Web's leading legal news and information network. ALM's other businesses include book, custom and newsletter publishing, court verdict and settlement reporting, production of legal trade shows and conferences, educational seminars and distribution of content related to the legal industry. ALM was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. More information on ALM, its business and services is available on the Web at www.americanlawyermedia.com.
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