Casemaker, CLE Options and LegalSpan to Form Legal Information Alliance

Casemaker, CLE Options and LegalSpan and have agreed to form an alliance to better serve the legal information needs of the nation’s lawyers. They believe that combining the energies of quality CLE content provider with the finest and most elegant online delivery and the most complete and cost effective primary law library will present opportunities beyond what each party offers alone. It is their intention to continue work through the affiliated bars, to serve the nation’s lawyers with complete and cost effective legal information, online.

"The opportunity for the #1 on line CLE programs to integrate with the #1 bar association on line law library is simply a win-win proposition for lawyers. The synergy creates the opportunity for outstanding CLE and the greatest membership benefit ever."

Joseph Shea, Founder 
Casemaker Consortium

“I am excited about the formation of this alliance as it gives our customers the opportunity to click through to search of a meaningful body of primary law. This adds significant value to our CLE Options product! It is clear to me that this alliance and its synergies will add more in total than each of us could offer alone.”

James Carder
Director of Marketing/Partner
Business Professionals Network/CLE Options

"As online CLE matures we are beginning to see more and more users accessing our system for education as well as to fulfill their last minute CLE requirements. We are committed to evolving our system to keep pace with our user's growing expectations and needs. This affiliation and the resultant bi-directional links between online CLE and legal research will allow us to take the next step in the evolution of online CLE. Each program can become not an end in itself, but a stepping-stone to additional education and research through Casemaker. "

John Davis
President & CEO
LegalSpan, Inc

About Business Professionals Network
Business Professionals Network through their CLE Options product strives to develop, produce and distribute the best in national CLE programs in all derivative delivery formats. Over the past two years, working in conjunction with bars nationwide, they have offered a variety of meaningful CLE programs via live satellite, video for replay, live web casts and archived online in conjunction with their alliance with LegalSpan. More information about their approach and offerings can be found at www.businessprofessionals.net. 

About Casemaker
In the past year, Casemaker was the choice for eight out of the nine state bar associations that decided to provide a historic-to-current on line law library from their web site. We believe that the Casemaker success is related to the fact that we are always looking for new ways to serve lawyers and the cost-effective administration of justice through the bar associations of America

About LegalSpan
Providing online CLE for more than 20 state bar associations, LegalSpan is the nation's leading Legal Internet broadcasting company. LegalSpan provides a seamless and fully integrated online CLE catalog that enables associations in the legal, accounting and banking professions to provide the highest quality educational content on the Internet.