LONDON, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Axxia Acquisition Reinforces LexisNexis's Role as a Total Solutions
Provider in the Mid-Sized Law Firm Market

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of business information solutions,
today announced the acquisition of Axxia - a leading provider of back-office
and integrated solutions in the mid-law segment in the UK.

The acquisition of Axxia enables LexisNexis to offer a full suite of
practice management solutions to the UK mid-law sector. Medium sized law
firms can now rely on LexisNexis for both content and complementary IT
infrastructure enhanced with workflow solutions.

The Axxia acquisition is a further step towards LexisNexis' goal to be a
comprehensive solutions business by combining local and global strategic
acquisitions with existing content products. This move also complements the
acquisition of Visualfiles in 2006 that provided a market leading case
management front-end solution for the mid-law market. The addition of Axxia
enables LexisNexis to offer fully integrated workflow-based solutions
enhanced with relevant content for the mid-law market in the UK, building on
the heritage of LexisNexis Butterworths publishing and understanding of the
information used within law firms.

LexisNexis has also implemented a global reorganisation which sees the
appointment of Kate Holden as Senior Vice President of Global Practice
Management Solutions to oversee the development of solutions to meet local
and global customer needs.

"LexisNexis offers customers integration of front and back office, with
all the resulting benefits, such as improved efficiencies with seamless
movement from one application to another, and relevant content automatically
pre-populating searches and check lists. This one-stop-shop offering helps
our customers to maximise productivity and profitability, reduce malpractice
risk, enhance client interaction, and make well-informed case and matter
decisions," said Kate Holden, Senior Vice President of Global Practice
Management Solutions, LexisNexis.

"LexisNexis already offers a Practice Management Total Solution in the US
and we are keen to bring this successful approach to the UK," adds Josh
Bottomley, Managing Director, LexisNexis UK.

"We have seen this comprehensive business solution bring tangible
benefits to clients integrating everything they need to excel in the business
and practice of law - from calendaring and time management to legal research,
case assessment, document drafting and client relationship management, and it
means one point of contact to resolve any integration issues rather than a
panel of suppliers."

Stuart Holden, Managing Director, Axxia comments, "Although both
businesses serve similar organisations, the product portfolios at Axxia and
Visualfiles are extremely complementary. Both Visualfiles and Axxia hold
leading positions with their respective offerings. Visualfiles has a first
class reputation for its case management software and Axxia's key strength
lies in integrated front and back office solutions. With both Visualfiles and
Axxia in the LexisNexis stable, we can offer our customers an unparalleled
wealth of knowledge and experience across a broad range of markets. This will
significantly strengthen our ability to deliver the leading portfolio of
integrated and open solutions that satisfy the widest range of customer
needs."

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis(R) (http://www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of
business information solutions to a wide range of professionals in the legal,
risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and
academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its
Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) services. A member of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: ENL; NYSE:
RUK) (http://www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than
100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.

In the UK, LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk) online services
include LexisNexis Butterworths - named Online Product of the Year at the
Legal Technology Awards - and Nexis(R) the single most powerful global news
and business information service. The company has over 1,000 employees in the
UK.

About Axxia

Axxia Systems (http://www.axxia.com) is one of the UK's leading legal IT
suppliers and has been driving the business of law through technology for
nearly four decades. It has over 200 clients and 20,000 daily users across
private practice, the public sector and central government and has been
responsible for many IT firsts in the market. The latest of these is Axxia
dna(asterisk), the first ever practice management system built on a business 
process management platform. The web-based dna(asterisk) has set a new 
benchmark for integrated solutions in terms of functionality and usability 
and is designed to bring process, control, compliance and profitability to 
the agile, empowered enterprise.