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July 30, 2002: WorldCom and Enron ~ e-Law® Now Provides FREE Access to the Bankruptcy Documents of the Two Largest Bankruptcies in History


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


Contact: Jerry Krivitzky
Phone: 973.642.1440, ext. 107
e-mail: krivitzky@e-law.com
e-Law, LLC
240 Mulberry Street
Newark, NJ  07101

NEWARK, NJ (Tuesday, July 30, 2002) ¾ e-Law, LLC announced the launch of yet another website on July 30, 2002 www.elaw4worldcom.com for use in the WorldCom Chapter 11 cases. e-Law.com continues to host the Enron documents at www.elaw4enron.com made available to the public on March 8th of this year.These sites provide free access to the documents of both of the largest bankruptcies in history. A listing of all the law firms involved in the cases, the hearing schedules and special communications instructions are also posted.

"e-Law® has proved that the Internet is an ideal method for document access and distribution," according to Jerry Krivitzky, Chairman and CEO of e-Law, LLC, the company charged with building, managing and hosting the sites. "I expect the cases to generate over 50,000 documents. On paper, these documents would be enough to fill 25 sets of encyclopedias. e-Law® provides these files electronically with all the advantages that affords including space saving storage, print and search capabilities."

“Just since March, our Enron site has posted 7,500 documents with new ones arriving each court day.We’ve supported 125,000 visits and downloaded 250,000 copies.” says Ed Denné, Chief Operating Officer. “Seldom does a response so genuinely address a demonstrated need. We are expecting even higher volumes with the introduction of the WorldCom documents. We are committed to pursuing the intelligent use of automation and technologies to improve communications and value. elaw4Enron.com and elaw4Worldcom.com are two sterling examples.”

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. All documents can be accessed and downloaded free of charge. E-Law also provides premium search , alert and notification services as part of its value added subscription package.

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e-Law®, based in Newark, NJ, has been operating a website at http://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 26,000 registered users, enough to overflow Madison Square Garden and who have researched more than 2.5 million cases.

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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.