Law.com First to Market With Regionalized LegalContent for All 50 States.

Business Editors & Legal/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2000

Law.com, the premier destination on the Web for the legal community, today announced the launch of its network of sites for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The newly

enhanced law.com features up-to-the-minute regionalized legal news, federal circuit and state court decisions and information targeted to the more than 1.5 million legal professionals and law students nationwide. Law.com's comprehensive, in-depth legal news and decision coverage is the first of its kind online for the legal community.

In addition to its own original editorial, law.com's comprehensive content offering leverages its strategic partnership with American Lawyer Media, the nation's largest legal journalism organization, by utilizing the more than 400 expert legal editors and attorneys nationwide on the ALM team.

"A crucial part of attorneys' practices is keeping current with the law in their states as it pertains to their practice areas," said Bill Feid, CEO of law.com. "Law.com's 50-state Web site network provides a convenient, reliable and comprehensive tool that meets that demand. Combined with law.com's additional 'must-have' resources -- like online continuing legal education seminars and specialized practice centers -- law.com provides attorneys with a single destination for the tools that are essential to successfully practicing law."

The network of Web sites is accessible by clicking on the "Visit our State Sites" button on the law.com national site homepage, or directly by inserting the state postal code after the www.law.com address (i.e. www.law.com/ma). Access to legal news and information is free and attorneys can search law.com archives for particular information by both state and subject matter. In addition to breaking legal news, law.com offers comprehensive current decision coverage, extensive job listings, new federal court filings, access to specialized Practice Centers, and online continuing legal education seminars.

About law.com

Law.com, a privately held company, is the Web's most comprehensive legal destination, providing legal professionals and law students with the tools and intelligence required to compete and succeed in today's wired world. Visitors to law.com can track breaking developments in the law; purchase law books, software, forms and information products online; and research issues and cases or explore nationwide job openings in the legal industry. Investors in law.com include majority owner U.S. Equity Partners L.P., a private equity investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein Perella & Co., and SOFTBANK Capital Partners L.P., a late-stage Internet venture investment group sponsored by SOFTBANK CORP.