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e-Law.com is making the growing mountain of documents of the largest bankruptcy filing in history manageable and available to interested parties on-line at no cost to the end user

NEWARK, NJ (Monday, March 25, 2002)
e-Law, LLC announced the launch of it’s website, www.elaw4enron.com, for use in the Enron chapter 11 cases on March 8^th and already has had 18,500 visits and over 50,000 free document views and downloads. Since the launch, e-Law has added documents relating to the bankruptcy filings of Enron's subsidiaries and some of the partnerships involved in the alleged accounting improprieties. A listing of all the law firms involved in the case is also posted.

In addition to the numerous creditors and approximately 500 law firms involved in the chapter 11 cases, there are more than 25,000 current and former Enron employees who are watching these proceedings.

“e-Law enables lawyers to drop their yellow legal pads in favor of the Internet much in the same way FedEx got them to drop conventional mail in favor of overnight deliveries,” according to Jerry Krivitzky, Chairman and CEO of E-Law, LLC, the company charged with building, managing and hosting the site. “I expect the case to generate over 20,000 documents. On paper, these documents would be enough to fill 10 sets of encyclopedias. With elaw4enron.com, the documents will live electronically on a computer drive the size of a shoe box.”

“The idea of a free site is fitting when there is such a huge public demand for public information. This site will continue to benefit from the knowledge our companies have gained in serving the communities of law and government for over 100 years and from our experience with the variety of electronic offerings we’ve introduced in the past decade including most recently e-Law.com.” says Ed Denné, Chief Operating Officer. “Seldom does a response so genuinely address a demonstrated need.  We are committed to pursuing the intelligent use of automation and technologies to improve communications and value. Elaw4Enron.com is a sterling example.”

e-Law, LLC www.e-law.com, a legal Internet company that serves New York lawyers by monitoring New York trial courts case dockets, agreed to host an Independent Web Site for the Enron Bankruptcy documents at no cost to those using it. With few exceptions, every document filed with the Bankruptcy Clerk’s office is done so electronically. The copies that are served on all interested parties and firms are done via email.

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E-Law, based in Newark, NJ, has been operating a website at www.e-law.com since October 2000 that serves the New York legal community. Free access to state Supreme Court civil cases for the five boroughs of New York City plus eight surrounding counties has attracted more than 20,000 registered users, enough to fill Madison Square Garden!, who have researched more than 1.9 million cases. The site continues to evolve – the most recent upgrade of content and functionality being completed March 20^th, 2002 and featuring very powerful enhancements to complement automatic alerts and personal calendar docketing.

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E-Law® covers the New York Civil Court dockets across 13 counties: the Bronx, Dutchess, Erie, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester. E-Law is owned and managed by the same people who publish the Lawyers Diary and Manual. Not a dot com for the moment, but a commitment from the firm that for more than 100 years has provided the day-to-day information needed to PracticE-Law. And now, the Enron Document Center too at elaw4enron.com.