ChoicePoint teams up with Loislaw.com.ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- Partnership to provide legal industry with online access to comprehensive public records reports ChoicePoint Inc.(TM)(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPS (1) (Characters Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a serial printer or the speed of a data transfer between hardware devices or over a communications channel. CPS is equivalent to bytes per second. ) and Loislaw.com, Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq:LOIS LOIS Land-Ocean Interaction Study LOIS Law Office Information Systems LOIS Lofar Outrigger in Scandinavia LOIS Loss of Interim Status LOIS Laser Operated Ion Source LOIS Learning Options in Suffolk LOIS Location Oriented Information System ), formerly Law Office Information Systems, Inc., announced today a joint partnership that will provide customers online access to both companies' products and services. The agreement creates a pipeline connecting each company's sites and services, providing legal professionals access to ChoicePoint's more than 3.5 billion individual public records and to Loislaw.com's more than 1,500 databases containing federal and state case law, statutes and regulations. "In the past year, we have concentrated heavily on expanding our legal market product offerings and the partnership with Loislaw.com continues that trend," explained Jeff McWey, ChoicePoint senior vice president. "Together we can offer a credible, cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. alternative in the legal marketplace. We're very excited about moving forward and creating even more comprehensive services in the future." The strategic alliance provides legal professionals with both primary law resources and online public records information. Customers will now have real-time access to incorporation status, location/residence verification, liens and bankruptcies, as well as federal and state law, legal training and education manuals, and current news feeds. The partnership will create one of the industry's most cost-effective single-source repositories While acknowledging services such as [ROAR: [1]] and [OpenDOAR: [2]] it is perhaps necessary to provide a list of individual repositories described in more detail within wikipedia here. for case law, statutes, regulations, public records information and services. "This strategic partnership will provide our customer base with access to information and research beyond our core legal libraries at cost-effective per-use rates. This agreement is consistent with Loislaw.com's `value-based' business model and our customers' desire to `pay for content and results, not time'." said Kyle <noinclude></noinclude> ''This article or section is being rewritten at One derivation of the surname is from the Scottish Highland word caol, 'channel', or 'strait'. There are other possible derivations (see below). Parker, founder and Chairman of Loislaw.com, Inc. "The new services and products this partnership will deliver will facilitate our move into the non-legal markets, including business and consumer products." continued Parker. ChoicePoint is the leading provider of decision-making intelligence to businesses and government agencies. Through the identification, retrieval, storage, analysis and delivery of data, the company serves the information needs of the property and casualty insurance market, the life and health market, and Fortune 1000 corporations, asset-based lenders and professional service providers, and federal, state and local governments. For more information about ChoicePoint, visit www.choicepointinc.com. Loislaw.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOIS) provides comprehensive, cost-effective and easy-to-use legal and related information over the Internet and on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . It currently offers more than 1,500 databases estimated to contain more than 8 million documents of federal and state law, 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. materials and other legal information. Its databases provide more than 100,000 news articles a month from more than 400 domestic and international sources. Loislaw.com's electronic libraries are currently available for 40 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , the US Supreme Court and all 13 federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. |
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