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Date: March 12, 2004
Press Contact: Katie Neunsinger West LegalEdcenter (651) 848-9222 katie.neunsinger@thomson.com
BOCA RATON, Fla., and EAGAN, Minn., March 11, 2004 - West
LegalEdcenter® (www.westlegaledcenter.com) today
announced an exclusive agreement with Celesq AttorneysEd
Center® to add Celesq's continuing legal education (CLE)
courses to its catalog of over 3,000 online CLE programs. West
LegalEdcenter is the nation's leading online CLE service from
West, a Thomson business (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With this
agreement, Celesq 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.
"We considered many different options for expanding our
online presence and found that a partnership with West
LegalEdcenter was the best way to bring our CLE offerings to a
wider audience with the finest technology available," said
Michael J. Mirsky, president of Celesq AttorneysEd Center. "We
are pleased to partner with the market leader in online CLE, and we
know that the people who will benefit most will be our customers -
both the existing customers who have kept coming back to us for
their CLE needs as well as the new customers who will discover our
programs for the first time through West LegalEdcenter."
Celesq AttorneysEd Center will continue to produce quality CLE
programs on topics that apply to all practice areas, including
corporate law and governance, securities law, employment law,
intellectual property, litigation, in-house counsel and ethics. The
programs will be available online from West LegalEdcenter as well
as in video, audio and CD formats from the Celesq Web site (www.celesq.com).
"We are delighted that Celesq has agreed to join us. Celesq
has earned a long-held reputation for providing high quality CLE
programming that addresses the hot issues in the legal industry and
the practice of law, and West LegalEdcenter has earned a reputation
for offering CLE programming over the Internet, when attorneys want
it, with the best technology available," said Steve Daitch,
vice president and general manager of West LegalEdcenter.
"This partnership combines the best elements of two
organizations to offer attorneys with an unmatched online learning
experience."
West LegalEdcenter includes 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 Celesq AttorneysEd Center
Celesq® AttorneysEd Center (www.celesq.com) is a premier
provider of high-quality, cutting-edge continuing legal education
programs to attorneys throughout the United States. Unique in its
ability to offer attorneys their choices of formats, from
audiotapes, videotapes and CDs, to online streaming audio or video.
Celesq was designed with the attorney?s comfort and convenience in
mind. Contact Sharon Levine Mirsky, Esq., at (561) 241-1919 or slmirsky@celesq.com for more
information.
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 43,000 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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