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Haynes and Boone, LLP Delivers Attorney and Client Applications through LexisNexis(TM) Portal Powered by Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite The LexisNexis(TM) Portal Powered by Plumtree Enables Haynes and Boone to Improve Client Service and Attorney Collaboration DAYTON, Ohio and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software , and LexisNexis(TM) U.S., a global leader in legal, news and business information services, today announced that Haynes and Boone, LLP, an international law firm that was named the 2000 AmLaw 100 tech firm of the year and runner-up in 2001-02, has selected the LexisNexis(TM) Portal, powered by Plumtree, to deliver Enterprise Web applications to its attorneys and clients. The solution includes the Plumtree Corporate Portal as well as Plumtree's Collaboration, Content, Search and Studio Servers. Through its Enterprise Web deployment, Haynes and Boone is set to improve client service and attorney collaboration. "In our industry, the most important differentiator is client service and how technology can be used to improve the client experience," said Thom Wisinski, Chief Knowledge Officer at Haynes and Boone. "The LexisNexis Portal built with Plumtree's Enterprise Web technologies help us differentiate our client service by creating applications that solve business problems, regardless of what we have on the backend -- increasing our mobility and responsiveness, connecting our attorneys to the right information sources and helping us to work more effectively with our clients." The first portal technology developed exclusively for law firms, the LexisNexis Portal powered by Plumtree gives Haynes and Boone attorneys and legal professionals one convenient location to access key research tools. These include subscription and public legal research sources and topical news services, the Internet, and the lexis.com(R) service, as well as the firm's intranet, documents, memos and precedence database. These sources are not only available in one place, but they also can be searched at the same time with the portal's unique one-search capability. Haynes and Boone will be showcasing its deployment through a Web seminar on November 18th at 1:00 p.m. (CST). Registration will be at http://www.plumtree.com/03/legal/ . What's in Haynes and Boone's Portal? Haynes and Boone, LLP has created a variety of Enterprise Web applications for the firm's clients, attorneys and employees through the portal. Unlike traditional Web applications, Enterprise Web applications are assembled from shared services hosted on many application servers, but managed within one framework. Some of the applications used by Haynes and Boone include: An Attorney Workspace Application where Haynes and Boone attorneys can: - View current billing activity; - Collaborate on projects through the Plumtree Collaboration Server; - Find docketing information from Time Matters(R); - Locate lists of documents pertaining to each client and matter; - Read about client-specific news; - Locate all of the attorneys within the firm who have knowledge about a client; - Find public notes that former attorneys have left for a client; and - Locate presentation templates and best practices on topics like "client service." Individually branded Client Portals where Haynes and Boone clients can: - Retrieve personalized accounting information and status reports; - Edit case reports with their attorneys through iManage; and - Read firm related news through a LexisNexis Tracker(TM) portlet. Accounting Applications where Haynes and Boone attorneys and staff can: - Get accounting information about a specific client, such as account receivables, and be able to drill down through the application, all of the way to the invoice level, for further detail; - View billing and financial information from the firm's accounting system; and - Locate client contact information from Interaction, the firm's CRM database. Employee Services Applications where Haynes and Boone attorneys and staff can: - View payroll information and paycheck stubs, and - See available vacation time. LexisNexis Portal Powered by Plumtree Chosen for Flexibility and Ease of Integration When Haynes and Boone looked to replace its existing intranet, it searched for a solution with an extensible framework, so that capabilities, processes and user experiences could easily be added, changed or removed as their business needs evolve. "A completely open framework was a necessity in making the cut for our new portal software," said Kurt Geisler, Chief Technical Officer for Haynes and Boone. "This allows us to create applications in virtually any application language." Haynes and Boone also searched for a solution that featured comprehensive integration with the firms' backend systems, not simply presenting data, but searching, storing and combining data and processes from all the relevant systems in order to present attorneys and staff with better business decision making information. The LexisNexis Portal powered by Plumtree, which is designed to provide legal professionals access to mission critical applications and highly utilized authoritative content, satisfied both of these requirements. About Haynes and Boone Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international law firm with eight offices throughout Texas, Washington, D.C. and Mexico City providing a full spectrum of legal services to clients around the world. With more than 450 attorneys, National Law Journal ranks Haynes and Boone among the largest law firms in the nation. AmLaw Tech Magazine Scoreboard ranked Haynes and Boone first in law firm technology in 2000. The firm has been recognized as one of the 25 "Best U.S. Law Firms at Which to Work" (Of Counsel, 2000), one of the "Best Corporate Law Firms in America" (Corporate Board Member Magazine, 2002) and recipient of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's 2002 Thomas L. Sager Award for commitment to diversity. About LexisNexis LexisNexis(TM) ( http://www.lexisnexis.com/ ) is a global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE:ENL) (NYSE:RUK) ( http://www.reedelsevier.com/ ), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web- based research service, LexisNexis, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac. LexisNexis provides solutions for organization-wide information needs of corporate, legal, federal, and academic professionals. About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, maximizing customers' return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 520 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. DATASOURCE: LexisNexis CONTACT: Bob Sadowski of LexisNexis, +1-937-865-8816, or ; or Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site: http://www.lexis-nexis.com/ http://www.reedelsevier.com/ http://www.plumtree.com/ http://www.plumtree.com/03/legal

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