LexisNexis and NetDocuments Join Forces to Offer Hosted Document, Email and Records Management Services to the Legal Market

LexisNexis U.S. today announced an alliance with NetDocuments, theleading hosted document services provider, to exclusively offer theNetDocuments service to its law firm and corporate legal customers asa new component of LexisNexis(R) Managed Network Services. LexisNexisis a leading provider of information and services solutions.

The LexisNexis alliance with NetDocuments is the most recentaddition to the LexisNexis collection of practice management productsand services, and further supports the LexisNexis Total PracticeSolutions strategy. Total Practice Solutions help legal professionalsachieve excellence in both the business and practice of law byproviding better tools to increase productivity, profitability andgrowth. LexisNexis offerings are designed for the way legalprofessionals work, in all of the areas essential to their success,including Client Development, Research Solutions, Practice Managementand Litigation Services.

The alliance will facilitate deep integration betweenNetDocuments' innovative document management capabilities and otherLexisNexis solutions, including LexisNexis(R) Total Search. LexisNexisTotal Search, the award-winning integrated search tool designed tomake practitioners more efficient and effective, applies the precisionof LexisNexis searching capabilities and the exclusive authority ofShepard's(R) Citations Service to a law firm's internal documentcollections with deep links back to the LexisNexis(R) services.

Today's announcement includes several additional law firms whohave committed to the NetDocuments(R) service, including KennedyCovington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP, and Armstrong Allen, PLLC. Thesefirms will migrate their existing document management environment tothe LexisNexis hosted NetDocuments service and join existingNetDocuments customers, such as Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Lewis BrisboisBisgaard & Smith LLP, and Kutak Rock LLP.

Designed and developed as an on-demand document service for theWeb, the NetDocuments service is the first Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) offering for documents. The alliance between LexisNexis andNetDocuments will offer law firms of all sizes a fully-featureddocument and email management service with built-in extranetcapability, disaster recovery, archival and records managementservices. The NetDocuments' patented and scalable technology providesa centralized repository for documents, emails and records where lawfirms can have a single-repository "one firm view" acrossgeographically dispersed offices and access information from anyInternet-connected device, including Blackberry(R) and Outlook(R).

Managed from two redundant world-class hosting data centers,including the LexisNexis data centers, the NetDocuments SaaS modeldelivers enhancements to customers faster, is more reliable thantraditional software, reduces ownership costs, includes businesscontinuity, provides automatic backups and redundancy, and eliminatesthe need for product upgrades and maintenance rollouts.

Curt Meltzer, CIO of multinational Dorsey & Whitney, states, "Itis gratifying to see NetDocuments and the SaaS model recognized byLexisNexis and other law firms as the technology leader in documentmanagement services. In the three plus years of using NetDocuments, weare very pleased with its functionality and overall value that itprovides a firm of our size."

Jamie Booth, CIO of Hunton & Williams, commented on the trend ofhosted document management solutions: "Having a centralized and hostedrepository for a firm's documents provides lawyers with extremelyefficient access wherever they work. This new alliance betweenLexisNexis and NetDocuments creates a credible and strategic documentmanagement system alternative for firms of all sizes."

Mike Walsh, senior vice president of Large Law, LexisNexis, said,"As part of our Total Practice Solution, LexisNexis provides customerswith world-class hosting services, including document services.NetDocuments offers the perfect complement to our existing hosting andbusiness continuity services - LexisNexis Managed Network Services -by adding applications that can be delivered as services and furtherhelp our customers reduce IT costs, optimize time and resources, andminimize risks."

According to Kenneth Duncan, CEO, NetDocuments, "This alliancefurther solidifies the leadership of LexisNexis foreseeing the trendstowards on-demand computing. Document and email management are themost pervasive front-office applications in a law firm and now withina hosted model, they become a platform for additional applications andtools that will transform the way attorneys work on their documentsand communicate with their clients."

For more information about the NetDocuments service fromLexisNexis, please visit www.netdocuments.com/lexis, emailinfo@netdocuments.com or call +1.866.638.3627.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider ofinformation and services solutions, including its flagship Web-basedLexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, to a wide range ofprofessionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government,law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of ReedElsevier Group plc (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), thecompany does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employeesworldwide.

In the United States, LexisNexis(R) offers its customers totalpractice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and printlegal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools,customized Web applications and critical filing services that helplegal professionals achieve excellence in the business and practice oflaw.

About NetDocuments

NetDocuments is leading the industry trend for On Demand documentmanagement and collaboration services. Law firms of all sizes can savetens to hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating the hardware,system and client software, and ongoing administration of a legacyclient-server technology model. There are no huge upfront investmentsand an organization can be up and running literally in minutes. Withthe NetDocuments patented service simply "turned on" legalprofessionals can immediately begin storing, managing and sharingdocuments throughout the world and on any Internet-connected device.Founded in 1997 and based in Orem, Utah, NetDocuments are the formerfounders of SoftSolutions, the first DMS to legal. They now havecustomers in over 68 countries and are the first vendor to offer aSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to the legal market. For moreinformation about the company and management, go towww.netdocuments.com/legal.