New Client Service Center

New Providence, NJ - Press Release - September 19, 2005 - LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, the leading client development company for the legal profession, has created a free online service that enables its law firm customers to maximize the value of their Martindale-Hubbell listings by making quick updates to their content on martindale.com and lawyers.com.

The new Client Service Center significantly reduces the time required to make edits to a firm's professional biographies any time there is a change at the firm, such as the hiring of a new lawyer, the relocation of an office, the addition of a new practice area or simple changes to an office profile. In addition, law firms can now make quick changes to their online listings in order to respond to developments in the news that may represent emerging opportunities for client development. "The goal of this new service is to make sure that a law firm's Martindale-Hubbell listing is always current when it is searched by clients and prospective clients on martindale.com, lawyers.com, lexis.com and the dozens of search engines across the Internet that display results found from our attorney database," said Ann Fullenkamp, senior vice president for the small law firm market at LexisNexis.

"We've built a simple user interface so that our customers can visit the Client Service Center regularly to add any new information they wish to communicate about their firms, such as recent awards, published articles, contact information changes, as well as routine copy edits to their listings," she added.

According to Fullenkamp, many Martindale-Hubbell customers have now received email messages with confidential user names and passwords for accessing the Client Service Center (both of which can be easily reset by the customer). There are four primary types of listing changes that law firms will now be able to make in a quick and convenient manner:

• Adding new lawyer biographies
• Editing existing lawyer biographies
• Adding new office profiles and
• Editing existing office profiles

The new service is free to all Martindale-Hubbell customers. In addition, for a free guide to how law firms can maximize the visibility of their Martindale-Hubbell listings on lawyers.com, martindale.com and top search engines such as Yahoo!, Google and MSN, please send an email to cscinfo@martindale.com.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis® (http://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.reed-elsevier.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 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 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.