Major QL Announcement? or Is It?

Just off the Wires with today’s date – but wasn’t this the same announcement they made on May 8? And does this answer any of the questions we raised about enhanced search, yesterday?

New Quicklaw™ Legal Research Service Provides Powerful Features

New Search and Filtering Capabilities and Ability to Save Searches and Set Up Alerts Represent Major Enhancements to Canada’s Leading Online Legal Information Service

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(CCNMatthews – July 5, 2006) – LexisNexis Canada, a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced it has launched the new version of the LexisNexis® Quicklaw™ online legal research service, offering important enhancements and a significantly updated look and feel. The new Quicklaw provides advanced search features and functionality to help legal professionals locate the most relevant information from a vast and comprehensive collection of resources. Quicklaw now enables both targeted and broad-level content searching, offers improved results filtering capability, keeps track of recent and saved searches, and allows customers to set up alerts to be informed automatically of the latest cases.

“In addition to the richest content, Quicklaw now also provides a new and intuitive interface with enhanced tools to deliver content more effectively,” said Mike Pilmer, president and CEO, LexisNexis Canada. “We have worked extensively with our customers across Canada-gathering information and feedback from focus group sessions, through market research, and via exhaustive user testing-to determine what features we needed to add to Quicklaw to make it an even better product. The new Quicklaw incorporates our findings.”

Designed to make research easier, more flexible, more efficient, and more precise, the enhanced Quicklaw provides the following advantages:

* A General Search form for power searching across multiple types of content
* Content-specific search forms for targeting specific content types such as court cases, tribunal decisions, legislation, commentary, and journal articles
* Dynamic display options and results filtering for better viewing, sorting, and organizing of search results
* Access to recent searches and documents viewed for keeping track of important searches
* Alerts and Legal Update services for staying informed

The enhanced version of Quicklaw is available via the LexisNexis® global technology platform. LexisNexis announced the platform in 2003 and has successfully introduced local adaptations to customers in several countries. The platform brings advanced features and functionality and will provide customers with expanded opportunities to subscribe to vast collections of international sources.

Quicklaw customers will have the option to subscribe to additional Canadian, international, and news and business content that is not available on the existing versions of Quicklaw. As with the existing Quicklaw service, the new version is available in English or French and provides access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian court and administrative tribunal decisions, legislation, exclusive current awareness services including a wide selection of practice-area-specific NetLetters™, legal texts, journals, and articles, plus the QuickCITE™ case citator for validating case authority.

Judges, lawyers, law librarians, law students, and others rely on Quicklaw every day to identify case law to support legal positions, to understand the law in particular provinces or territories, to collect background information for factual discovery, and to keep abreast of emerging legal issues in particular areas of law. The 2004 LawTech Canada Legal Technology Survey of 1,400 Canadian law firms and legal departments found Quicklaw to be the leading online legal research service, with 80 per cent of respondents saying they use Quicklaw.