Bowne Business Solutions Corners Legal Outsourcing Market With $75 Million in New Contracts.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--

BBS Gains Ten New Clients, including Six of the

Nation's Largest Law Firms 

Bowne Business Solutions (BBS), a leading provider of information technology and business services outsourcing, recently added ten new clients to its renowned list of law firm clients. BBS, a business unit of Bowne & Co., Inc., is the leader in providing outsourcing solutions to the Top law firms in the United States, including six of the nation's ten largest firms.

"We are extremely pleased with the new business we have acquired and the progress we have made in expanding our relationship within the legal market," said David Shea, Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Bowne Business Solutions. "We are familiar with the full project cycle, the culture and environment of law firms and, as a result, are able to provide the broadest range of industry specific services to meet the needs of law firms."

BBS provides a wide range of business solutions, such as document and information technology management, to the nation's legal, banking and professional services firms. BBS recently signed agreements with ten leading law firms, including Altheimer & Gray; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; Shaw Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge; Munger, Tolles & Olson; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite; and Beus, Gilbert & Devitt.

"Our goal in providing business solutions to our clients is to build long-term relationships and develop the best possible outsourcing solutions to the legal market. The majority of our contracts last from three to five years, allowing us to develop long term strategic solutions that align with our clients' goals," says Linda Finkel, Chief Operating Officer of Bowne Business Solutions.

BBS will be providing document management services to Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker an international law firm employing more than 570 attorneys firm-wide with nine offices around the globe. BBS will manage and staff the firm's document center in its Los Angeles office.

"We have a very large operation here, and had been managing it in house for a long time. We had grown to a point where we couldn't risk absenteeism due to the high volume of work our staff was producing. Outsourcing was a logical choice for our needs," said Joan Fraser, Office Administrator for Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. "In addition to the added staff, we chose outsourcing as a business solution because we wanted to improve the services we provide to our attorneys and increase our level of expertise. We requested proposals from four companies in the area and chose Bowne Business Solutions because of its outstanding reputation in the legal industry."

Recent Acquisition Positions BBS as Market Leader in Outsourcing Solutions

Bowne & Co., Inc. recently acquired Donnelly Enterprise Solutions, Inc.(DESI) to form Bowne Business Solutions and to solidify its position as the market leader in providing outsourcing solutions to major financial service organizations, law firms and multi-national corporations. DESI's capabilities complement Bowne's unique ability to provide a comprehensive array of information management services that include document creation, printing and distribution, Internet publishing, Intranet development and content management, outsourcing and localization services.

More Information about Bowne Business Solutions and Bowne & Co., Inc.

Bowne Business Solutions provides a full range of document and information management solutions which help clients gain a competitive edge by providing the technology, expertise and methodology to manage their information more efficiently, create higher quality documents and achieve more timely and reliable distribution.

Bowne Business Solutions manages the entire lifecycle of information within an organization, from document creation to production and dissemination. Document management outsourcing solutions include graphics design and production, desktop publishing and word processing, imaging, electronic distribution, color and black/white print, local and distributed print, reprographics, final document assembly and distribution. Information technology solutions include network monitoring and management, systems administration, help desk services and end user training.

Through a joint venture with Williams Lea, Great Britain's leading provider of document management solutions, and Bowne & Company's worldwide facilities, BBS is able to provide these document and information management outsourcing and facilities management solutions globally.

Bowne & Co., Inc., established 1775, is the global market leader in the field of empowering information by combining superior customer service with appropriate new technologies to manage, repurpose and distribute a client's information to any audience, through any medium, in any language, anywhere in the world. The world's largest financial printer, Bowne is also the leading provider of localization services to the software industry. Localization is the adaptation and translation of information technology products for use in specific local markets. Bowne is among the leading Internet development companies, offering business solutions, consulting and development services. By providing outsourcing services, Bowne offers its customers an integrated way to design and manage their information flows to take advantage of the latest technologies for creating, storing, moving, presenting and utilizing information in any combination of paper and electronic forms.