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LRN extends multi-year partnership with Ford Motor Company for legal research and analysis

LOS ANGELES, CA – September 20, 2006 – LRN®, a leading provider of governance, ethics and compliance management applications and services, today announced it has extended an agreement with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) that supports Ford’s in-house counsel and outside law firms with expert legal research and analysis.  The agreement continues a five-year partnership between the companies. 

Recently selected as the “Best Legal Department of 2005” by Corporate Counsel magazine, Ford is among the hundreds of corporate law departments and law firms, who have adopted LRN as a best practice legal research model.  Companies such as DuPont, Honeywell, and Tyco look to LRN to provide comprehensive research and analysis of critical legal issues so that they are armed with the information necessary to make the right business decisions.

Under terms of the agreement, LRN will develop 50-state and international surveys, as well as other memoranda on the legal and regulatory matters that are relevant to Ford’s business.  The agreement also extends Ford’s access to the LRN KnowledgeBank™, an online, searchable library that contains more than 12 years worth of expert legal research and analysis conducted by LRN. 

“Ford was an early adopter of the LRN approach of providing legal research and analysis through our network of experts,” said Dov Seidman, chairman and CEO of LRN.  “Five years later, we continue to expand our work together to make it even more valuable, and we look forward to our continued partnership with Ford’s in-house lawyers and outside legal counsel.”

LRN provides the highest quality legal research and analysis at significant cost savings to leading legal departments and law firms around the world.  With solutions that include sophisticated legal research and analysis for lawyers and a database of legal memoranda, LRN has expanded opportunities for companies to make better legal decisions and take appropriate legal actions.  LRN's international network of more than 1,700 legal experts – law professors and experienced practitioners with expertise in more than 3,000 areas of the law including regulatory investigations, litigation, transactions, employment and international law – and unique business model streamline the legal research and analysis process, and deliver comprehensive, nuanced answers to critical legal issues. 

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