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Date: March 7, 2005
Press Contact: Samantha Hetzel West LegalEdcenter (651) 848-7576 samantha.hetzel@thomson.com
EAGAN, Minn., March 2, 2005 - Thomson West, the leading
provider of integrated information solutions to the legal
profession, today launched significant enhancements to West
LegalEdcenter (www.westlegaledcenter.com), the company's
industry-leading online continuing legal education (CLE) service.
New features will give legal professionals more powerful tools for
gaining knowledge and managing CLE participation. Thomson West is a
business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC, TSX: TOC).
The improved site combines West LegalEdcenter's
comprehensive library of high-quality national and local programs
from the industry's leading CLE providers with powerful new
features, including
- enhanced search functionality to help attorneys easily find
courses of greatest relevance by jurisdiction, practice area,
similar topic or specialty MCLE requirements;
- a personalized CLE Knowledge CenterSM that recommends specific
courses based on an attorney's profile and stated preferences;
and
- simplified management of legal education requirements and MCLE
tracking across multiple jurisdictions.
Users also can track their MCLE compliance information, perform
a smarter search to find programs that fulfill specific
requirements and sort results based on user-selected criteria. The
enhanced West LegalEdcenter site also enables legal professionals
to toggle between audio and video environments (where both formats
are available) based on their preferences.
"Thousands of legal professionals depend on West
LegalEdcenter to stay current in their practice area and fulfill
MCLE requirements," said Steve Daitch, vice president of West
Education Group and general manager of West LegalEdcenter. "By
improving the user experience for the customer and providing
personalized information, we've made it easier for legal
professionals to improve their knowledge in a particular area or
learn about recent trends affecting their cases. Furthermore,
we've simplified the experience so users can find what they are
looking for and gain quick access to the programs they need to
better serve their clients."
Many West LegalEdcenter innovations remain central to the
service. For example, live webcast attendees will still be able to
ask questions and otherwise participate in "real time"
during programs, and all course materials continue to be linked to
relevant documents on Westlaw®, the leading online research
service from Thomson West.
West LegalEdcenter remains the largest provider of both live
webcast and archived "on-demand" programs available
anywhere on the Internet. Authorized content partners include the
most respected names in state and national CLE programming,
including the Practising Law Institute, the American Law
Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing
Professional Education (ALI-ABA), the Association of Corporate
Counsel and the American Bankruptcy Institute, Continuing Education
of the Bar-CA (CEB), and the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York (ABCNY).
The site includes unmatched innovative features such as Thomson
West's customer service and technical support available 24
hours a day, seven days a week; a full-time accreditation and CLE
Advisory Service to help identify appropriate programs; and the
most comprehensive law firm and corporate law department CLE
Administrators Tool Kit for easy and seamless management of CLE
attendance and usage.
About West LegalEdcenter
West LegalEdcenter (www.westlegaledcenter.com) is the
online continuing legal education (CLE) service from Thomson West
and the winner of the 2003 TechnoLawyer @ Award in the Favorite
Online Continuing Legal Education Provider category. Headquartered
in Eagan, Minn., Thomson West is the foremost provider of
integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. Thomson
West is a business within The
Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and was formed when
West Publishing and Thomson Legal Publishing merged in June 1996.
For more information, please visit the Thomson West Web site at west.thomson.com.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2003 revenues
from continuing operations of $7.44 billion, is a global leader in
providing integrated information solutions to business and
professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information,
software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in
the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher
education, reference information, corporate training and
assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational
headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 38,000
employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The
Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and
Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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