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FindLaw.com to Provide Comprehensive Legal Content to Boulder Business Information, Inc., Publications
EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 5, 2004 -- Business owners along Colorado's front range and throughout Wyoming can now find answers to their pending legal questions. Thomson FindLaw today announced an agreement to provide a comprehensive collection of law-related content and resources from FindLaw.com to Boulder Business Information, Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based publisher of business journals and directories. Thomson FindLaw, a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), is the leading provider of client development services to the legal profession and maintains FindLaw.com, the nation's leading Web site for legal information for businesses, legal professionals and individuals.
Under the agreement, Thomson FindLaw becomes the exclusive provider of legal content to Business Report Daily (www.businessreportdaily.com), The Northern Colorado Business Report (www.ncbr.com), The Boulder County Business Report (www.bcbr.com) and The Wyoming Business Report (www.wyomingbusinessreport.com).
The sites' legal channels, powered by FindLaw.com, provide businesspeople with articles and guides on starting a business; finance, banking and securities; debt and bankruptcy; human resources; small-business legal concerns; business operations; intellectual property; dissolutions; and more. Additional resources made available to these Web sites through the agreement include:
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FindLaw Business Resource Center
Comprehensive, authoritative information resources for researching common business legal matters, such as starting a business, employers' rights, immigration, workers compensation, dissolution and more. These resources include free articles and forms, as well as access to West Legal Directory®, the Internet's largest directory of lawyers. -
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Business Contracts
A collection of documents and legal agreements from the FindLaw Corporate Counsel Center, a leading source of legal information among corporate counsel.
Debbie Monroe, president and CEO of Thomson FindLaw, said, "Whether you're a business owner interested in learning more about choosing the right legal structure for your business venture, or simply seeking answers to questions about hiring employees or safety in the workplace, the addition of FindLaw.com's comprehensive legal resources will enable users to further research the legal issues that impact their businesses."
"We are very excited to launch this partnership agreement with Thomson FindLaw," said Christopher Wood, co-publisher of the Northern Colorado Business Report. "Readers of our business publications value the type of legal resources that will now be available to them on our numerous Web sites. FindLaw adds a depth to our online initiatives that would be very difficult to duplicate anywhere else."
About Boulder Business Information, Inc.
Boulder Business Information, Inc. is a Boulder, Colo.-based publisher of business journals and directories. Its publications include The Boulder County Business Report, a biweekly providing business news and information for Boulder and Broomfield counties. BBI is also a partner in The Northern Colorado Business Report, a biweekly covering Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland and surrounding communities, and The Wyoming Business Report, a statewide monthly publication. BBI and its affiliates publish a variety of local directories for the agribusiness, construction, health-care, manufacturing and technology industries. Poudre Magazine, published by NCBR, provides outdoors, arts, entertainment and lifestyle articles for Northern Colorado. Another affiliate, DataJoe LLC, provides list and directory management tools for publishers of business journals and trade publications.
About Thomson FindLaw
Thomson FindLaw is the leading provider of client development services to the legal profession and a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Thomson FindLaw offers the legal industry's broadest, most comprehensive and first fully integrated suite of Web-based business and marketing applications, connected to the world's largest, best-qualified online audiences and communities. Businesses within Thomson FindLaw include Hubbard One, the leading provider of collaborative, Web-based business solutions to the nation's top law firms; and Glasser LegalWorks, connecting legal professionals with the foremost experts on business and the practice of law through continuing legal education seminars and newsletters. In addition, Thomson FindLaw's Web portal, www.findlaw.com is the highest-trafficked legal Web site with 3.7 million unique monthly users Ð three times more than its closest competitor.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2003 revenues from continuing operations of $7.44 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 38,000 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).