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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 24, 1998 - Law students and legal professionals
now
have a comprehensive Site on the world Wide web to access career development
materials and
services with today's launch of the LEXIS-NEXIS Career Center.
The Web-based career center, unveiled at the 1998 National Association for Law Placement (NALP) conference in San Francisco, provides job prospecting services and career-related resources from EmplawyerNet, NALP, the LEXIS-NEXIS CAREER library and the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Students and legal professionals can preview the LEXIS-NEXIS Career Center
by
visiting the LEXIS-NEXIS Xchange site for Law Schools at www.lexis.com/lawschool.
"As the leader in providing recognized career-related materials for
law students and legal
professionals. the LEXIS-NEXIS Career Center is a complete online resource
for job prospecting and career development." said Michael Conway, vice
president of law schools and court markets at LEXIS-NEXIS. "Through
LEXIS-NEXIS' exclusive partnership with these providers of premier legal
career resources, users have access to the most extensive job database in
the country. along with comprehensive job-related search tools and information."
The career center provides exclusive access to EmplawyerNet, a job prospecting
and
career development network with more than 5,000 live job leads, updated
daily. A product of
the Legal Recruitment Network. Inc., the service compiles a database of
legal jobs around the
country and enables candidates to electronically file a copy of their profiles
and resumes for
retrieval by prospective employers.
Legal career planning and recruitment publications from NALP, including
The Judicial Clerkship Directory and The National Directory of Legal Employers,
are available exclusively on
the career center site beginning in May. Produced by one of the leading
sources of information
for legal career planning and recruitment, the NALP directories help to
identify prospective employers in a specific geographic location and offer
insights on the employment
needs of U.S. law firms, government agencies and corporations.
Also accessible through the career center is the LEXIS-NEXIS CAREER online
library
containing over 70 legal directories, including the Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory, the authoritative directory listing over 900,000 attorneys and
law firms worldwide- The CAREER
library contains a range of useful information from legal, government and
judicial clerkship job
sources to publications detailing how to successfully develop a job search
strategy.
"For example, with the LEXIS-NEXIS Career Center, a user can start
with
EmplawyerNet and locate job listings, jump to Martindale-Hubbell for a bio
on the law firm and
its partners, then go into NALP for information on salary and pro-bono policy,??
said Conway,
"and next search the vast information resources of LEXIS-NEXIS and
its CAREER library to
research the potential employer and prepare for the interview It's truly
a complete, one-stop site."
Law students can access tips on writing resumes and cover letters and
also place their
resumes in the Martindale-Hubbell Student Directory, available on LEXIS-NEXIS,
for retrieval
by law firms.
In the coming months, the LEXIS-NEXIS Career Center will offer tutorials and materials from other strategic partners, including the Practising Law Institute and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
LEXIS-NEXIS, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is the world's leading provider
of
enhanced information services and management tools. The company's mission
is to help legal,
business and government professionals collect, manage and use information
more productively.
LEXIS-NEXIS is a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., and a member of the Reed
Elsevier
plc group (www.reed-elsvier.com), one of the world's leading publishing
and information
businesses. Reed Elsevier has annual sales in excess of $5 billion and 25,000
employees. It is
owned equally by Reed International P.L.C. (NYSE: RUK) and Elsevier NV (NYSE;
ENL).
Information about LEXIS-NEXIS and Reel Elsevier may be found at the LEXIS-NEXIS
Communication Center on the World Wide Web at www.lexis-nexis.com.
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