Foley & Lardner Relationship Expands

New Providence, NJ - Press Release - September 7, 2005 - LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, the leading client development company for the legal profession, has inked a new agreement with Foley & Lardner LLP to provide a wide range of client development opportunities for the firm.

Included in the new contract is an expanded presence of Foley & Lardner attorneys in the renowned Martindale-Hubbell attorney database through specific industry team and diversity attorney profiles. The expanded relationship also includes Foley's participation as hosts of select Martindale-Hubbell Counsel to Counsel forums around the world and as sponsors of the company's Counsel to Counsel magazine, the ability to publish articles by Foley attorneys in the Legal Articles database at martindale.com, innovative uses of Martindale Hubbell's Peer Rating System and other targeted online communications vehicles offered by Martindale-Hubbell.

"We're delighted to expand our partnership with Martindale-Hubbell in order to make sure that our firm's capabilities and our attorneys' specific areas of legal expertise are more effectively communicated to clients and potential clients around the world," said Kyle Heath, Chief Marketing Officer of Foley & Lardner.

About LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (www.martindale.com) is the leading client development company 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.

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.

About Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP is a provider of legal counsel to global companies. The firm's experience encompasses a full range of corporate legal services. Foley & Lardner's nearly 1,000 attorneys understand today's most complex business issues including corporate governance, securities enforcement, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and IP litigation, labor and employment, and tax. The firm offers total solutions in the automotive, e-business and information technology, energy, financial services, food, golf and resort services, insurance, health care, life sciences, nanotechnology, and sports industries. The firm's Web site can be found at www.foley.com.