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The Professional Education Group Signs with West LegalEdcenter - Agreement brings renowned skills training seminars online

Date: August 4, 2004
Press Contact: Katie Neunsinger West LegalEdcenter (651) 848-9222 katie.neunsinger@thomson.com

EAGAN, Minn., August 4, 2004 - The Professional Education Group (P.E.G.®) today announced that it will make its continuing legal education (CLE) skills training programs available online exclusively at West LegalEdcenter®(www.westlegaledcenter.com), the nation?s leading online CLE service from West. P.E.G. joins a distinguished roster of CLE providers, including local, state and national bar associations, offering high-quality innovative CLE courses to legal professionals via the Web through West LegalEdcenter.

"Our customers have told us they want increased access to our programs, at their convenience," said Paul Fogelberg, president of P.E.G. "We evaluated all the options for providing that access, and found that West LegalEdcenter offered the most comprehensive service, both to its content partners and to its end users ? our customers."

West LegalEdcenter partners include the nation's most respected producers of CLE programming, such as Practising Law Institute (PLI), American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education (ALI-ABA), the Association of Corporate Counsel and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

"We are thrilled to enter into this new partnership with The Professional Education Group, a recognized national leader in skills training for attorneys," said Steve Daitch, general manager of West LegalEdcenter. "By adding content from Paul and his outstanding roster of faculty and skills trainers we significantly expand our ability to meet the needs of new associates and young lawyers. Of particular note is our bringing P.E.G. tapes of Professor Irving Younger to the Web so that a whole new generation may learn from the most respected CLE lecturer of our time."

West LegalEdcenter includes unmatched innovative features such as links from course materials to Westlaw®, the leading online research service from West; customer service and technical support available 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and the most comprehensive law firm and corporate law department CLE Administrators Tool Kit to easily and seamlessly manage CLE attendance and usage.

About the Professional Education Group
The Professional Education Group, Inc. (P.E.G.) was founded on September 1, 1981, and produced its first continuing legal education (CLE) program on April 10, 1982. It has since presented more than 2,600 continuing education programs throughout North America. Today, P.E.G. plans and produces more than 150 such programs each year, with a faculty of 27 to offer more than 70 program titles for clients and their constituents.

About West LegalEdcenter West LegalEdcenter (www.westlegaledcenter.com) is the online continuing legal education (CLE) service from West and the winner of the 2003 TechnoLawyer @ Award in the Favorite Online Continuing Legal Education Provider category. Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. 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 West Web site at west.thomson.com

About The Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2003 revenues of $7.6 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 39,000 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).