Partnership to benefit lawyers by providing alternative to in-person CLE training

DAYTON AND SEATTLE, November 8, 1999 – More lawyers will have an easily accessible, cost-effective alternative to in-person continuing legal education (CLE) training through a partnership announced today by LEXIS Publishing and Taecan.com.

Effective immediately, LEXIS Publishing and Taecan.com will partner to make the expanding Taecan.com CLE online library available to customers of LEXIS Publishing’s lexis.com service. Taecan’s online legal courseware, currently accredited in over 27 states, will also be available through LEXIS Publishing’s lexis.com. The courseware will be accessible to LEXIS Publishing customers via a new lexis.com CLE section.

Introduced in August, the lexis.com interface incorporates expanded legal research capabilities through the availability of the lexis.com^sm user interface and LEXIS^® Search Advisor, a finding tool for legal materials based on areas of law and related topics.

Taecan.com is a Seattle-based Internet startup which has aggregated CLE content to the web by partnering with Bar Associations and CLE providers around the world.

The agreement between the two companies expands the availability of Taecan’s online continuing legal education (CLE) courseware and provides LEXIS Publishing customers with the convenience of "KeepTrack", a continuously available proprietary tracking system, which allows lawyers to track and report their CLE compliance online during their reporting period.

"By partnering with Taecan.com, LEXIS Publishing can now provide its legal customers with a more comprehensive course list of CLE," said Jim Peck, vice president, Electronic Publishing Development for LEXIS Publishing. "We are committed to leveraging an exclusive mix of rich intellectual property, innovative technology and deep editorial expertise.

This agreement furthers that commitment by utilizing the expanding library of online courses Taecan.com has been aggregating on its site. This agreement gives us even more services to offer our customers."

Traditional options for CLE credit often require money to be spent on travel, hotel and class registration, while revenue is often lost from un-billable time. By providing lawyers with a tool to complete all or part of their CLE requirements via the Internet, whether at home or in the office, costs are reduced by having the Internet become the "classroom." Law firms using Taecan's online resource for CLE credits stand to save approximately $1,200 per lawyer per year over traditional classroom CLE credits.

"This partnership makes Taecan stronger as it provides us with access to a larger customer audience that is required to take CLE," says Patrick Vane, CEO of Taecan.com. "By reaching lexis.com customers, Taecan.com extends the convenience of 24/7 education to an audience of Internet savvy lawyers who will easily see the benefits of online CLE courses."

Taecan.com is a Seattle-based Internet company that offers a convenient and affordable alternative to convention-style continuing legal education (CLE) seminars. Taecan is affiliated with national and international content providers including the Houston Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Ohio Bar Association CLE Institute, King County Bar Association, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, Washington Las Institute, South Texas College of Law, and Trusts and Estates. For more information on Taecan, visit www.taecan.com.

The LEXIS Publishing family of products and services serves the ever-changing needs of today’s lawyers, law librarians, paralegals and law students. LEXIS Publishing is part of the LEXIS-NEXIS Group, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Information about LEXIS Publishing may be found at www.lexispublishing.com.

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