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ProLaw and Advanced Legal Systems Extend Partnership

Integrating BIPro with ProLaw Back Office will Enable Clients
to Easily View Complex Financial Information, Saving Time and Increasing Efficiency

LOS ANGELES, Sep. 13, 2011 – ProLaw, a Thomson Reuters solution, has extended its integration partnership with Advanced Legal Systems, Inc., a technology solutions provider that offers a complete range of ProLaw services to the legal market. As a result of the collaboration, Advanced Legal Systems’ BI Pro™ Business Intelligence software can be integrated with ProLaw Back Office, enabling users to quickly and easily view complex financial information in a visual financial dashboard, saving attorneys and managers’ time and increasing their efficiency.

BIPro uses patented Blink Chart™ technology to enable ProLaw users to view financial information in easy to comprehend visual charts, including colorization that draws attention to critical information allowing management to quickly recognize business issues and make appropriate adjustments. BIPro is designed to mentor attorneys and other non-financial managers to better align their time and focus with financial driven results without a loss of billable hours.

“Advanced Legal Systems is an excellent partner to enhance the value law firms receive from ProLaw,” said Cary Burch, COO of Elite. “This partnership is particularly compelling as we are integrating two best-of-breed solutions for optimized financial and practice management. Our clients will surely benefit from BI Pro’s robust reporting capabilities.”

ProLaw’s Back Office integrated financial management applications provide the ideal foundation to feed data into the BIPro platform for easily digestible visualization of the firms’ financial information,” said Scott Randall CEO at Advanced Legal Systems. “Our partnership with ProLaw is a natural extension of our relationship, and we are excited to introduce BIPro and its amazing functionality to ProLaw’s many users.”

ProLaw is an industry leading solution from Thomson Reuters that automates the practice and manages the business of law by combining case and matter management as well as time entry, billing, and accounting capabilities in a single, integrated solution. ProLaw provides comprehensive integration with Microsoft® Outlook®, Word, Westlaw and WestlawNext for increased efficiency across small and mid-size law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies. Front Office. Back Office. One Office. www.prolaw.com 

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About Advanced Legal Systems
Advanced Legal Systems, Inc., is a technology solutions provider offering comprehensive services to the legal market. We follow a ‘best of breed’ approach to implementing and maintaining technology. As a result we spend considerable time evaluating the myriad of technology solutions on the market, identifying and assembling solutions to meet the needs of today’s law firms so our clients don’t have to. Our mission is to create technological calm in the firms that we serve. When technology is stable, efficient and effective, a calm prevails which allows our clients to return their focus to the practice of law.

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About Elite
Elite is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to professional services firms worldwide. Elite is part of Thomson Reuters and is a premier provider of financial and practice management systems to the legal industry and to other professional services markets, including accounting, marketing services, and management and IT consulting. For more information, visit www.elite.com.

About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minn., Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. For more information, visit www.thomsonreuters.com.