CLE Leaders Law.com and LexisNexis Announce Alliance to Expand Online Continuing Legal Education.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & DAYTON, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. -- ALM's Law.com(R) and LexisNexis, a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced an alliance that will expand and enhance online continuing legal education The purpose of continuing legal education is to maintain or sharpen the skills of licensed attorneys and judges. Accredited courses examine new areas of the law or review basic practice and trial principles. options for attorneys. Under the agreement, the Law.com CLE Cle total elimination clearance. Center will become the exclusive source for LexisNexis Mealey's(TM) online CLE courses, providing lawyers with a single Web destination that delivers a wide array of online options for meeting legal professional education requirements. Law.com and the LexisNexis(R) Mealey(TM) business unit will jointly market LexisNexis(R) Mealey's(TM) online CLE programs through the Law.com CLE Center and other Law.com channels. "We are delighted to partner with LexisNexis on this initiative, which brings together two of the profession's recognized leaders in CLE," said Jennifer Collins, managing director of Law.com. "We look forward to adding the deep and focused industry content available from LexisNexis, in areas such as insurance and pharmaceuticals, to our online CLE courses and to facilitating access to our combined offerings on the Law.com CLE Center." The alliance provides added options for attorneys whose work commitments and time constraints often prevent them from attending in-person training. "Up to this point, the only way to access Mealey's conference content was to attend a program. Now it's available online through this partnership," said Sharon Boothe Senior Director, Mealey's Conferences. "Attorneys who want to take online CLE and learn about niche areas of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. now have another option." The Law.com CLE Center is a leading provider of online continuing legal education programs that can be completed for MCLE MCLE Minimum Continuing Legal Education MCLE Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education MCLE Mandatory Continuing Legal Education MCLE Minnesota Continuing Legal Education MCLE Manitoba Council for Leadership in Education (Canada) credit in more than 25 states. The Law.com CLE Center saves attorneys time and money, while providing unmatched scheduling flexibility. Programs are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. The Center provides the highest quality online education experience for attorneys, as well as a staff of trained CLE Counselors offering expert, personalized customer service. Attorneys can continue to access all of Mealey's conference products, including live conferences, conferences on CD or DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and handbook materials through the LexisNexis Mealey's Professional Development Center at www.mealeys.com/conferences. LexisNexis Mealey's is just one tool in the portfolio of Total Practice Solutions LexisNexis offers its customers to help them achieve success in the business and practice of law. LexisNexis offerings are designed for the way legal professionals work, in all of the areas essential to their success, including Client Development, Research Solutions, Practice Management and Litigation Services About Law.com and ALM Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning ALM national and regional legal publications online. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , ALM is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and business communities. ALM currently owns and publishes 38 national and regional magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer(R), Corporate Counsel(R), The National Law Journal(R) and Real Estate Forum(R). ALM's Law.com(R) is the Web's leading legal news and information network, while ALM's GlobeSt.com(R) is the Web's leading information source for commercial real estate professionals. Other ALM businesses include book and newsletter publishing, court verdict and settlement reporting, production of professional trade shows, conferences and educational seminars, market research and content distribution. ALM was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. More information on ALM's businesses and services is available on the Web at www.alm.com. About LexisNexis LexisNexis(R) (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 NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical ; NYSE: RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Mealeys, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac. In the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) offers its customers total practice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and print legal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals grow their business, win cases and manage their practice. |
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