Press Release

PALO ALTO, CA -- January 11, 1999 -- FindLaw, Inc., the Internet legal portal, today expanded its offerings to include resource centers specifically tailored to meet the needs of small businesses and consumers.

The FindLaw Small Business Center includes thousands of pages of essential information on starting, financing, managing and marketing for small businesses, including step-by-step checklists, model business plans, legal and business forms, other business documents and the latest legal and business news.

The FindLaw Consumer Center contains thousands of articles and resources in scores of categories to help consumers deal with a wide range of issues, including, Banking, Bankruptcy, Credit, Discrimination, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Family Law, Government Benefits, Health and Medicine, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Investments, Labor & Employment, Personal Injury, Landlord/Tenant & Real Estate, Securities and much more.

The FindLaw Consumer Center also contains contact information for national consumer organizations, better business bureaus, corporations, trade associations, state and local consumer protection offices, state agencies, military consumer offices, and federal agencies, and tips and information on how victimized consumers can complain effectively. In addition to self-help materials, the FindLaw Consumer Center guides consumers through the process of hiring a lawyer and provides information about the legal system and resolving disputes with lawyers.

Both the FindLaw Small Business Center and the FindLaw Consumer Center provide community areas, including message boards, chat rooms and mailing lists where consumers and small business people can interact with legal professionals.

"With more and more small business owners and consumers using the Internet, we wanted to add resource centers designed to meet their specific needs," notes Tim Stanley, CEO of FindLaw. "While the main FindLaw guide caters to legal professionals, the FindLaw Small Business Center and FindLaw Consumer Center are designed for non-lawyers seeking legal information -- the information is presented in a way that is understandable to those without law degrees."

FindLaw, Inc., is dedicated to making legal information on the Internet easy to find. The most highly trafficked legal Web site, FindLaw includes a comprehensive guide to legal resources on the Internet, legal search tools, such as LawCrawler and full-text law review searching, case law, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893, timely legal news, real-time SEC filings, and online continuing legal education. FindLaw's free e-mail and free Web sites enable legal professionals unparalleled opportunities to exchange information with other legal professionals and legal consumers.

The URL for FindLaw Small Business is
http://smallbiz.findlaw.com

The URL for FindLaw Consumer is
http://consumer.findlaw.com

The URL for FindLaw is
http://www.findlaw.com/