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SPECIAL COMPANY PRESENTATION
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   ANDY WYSZKOWSKI
   Senior Director of Publishing Systems and Development
   WEST GROUP 

   Thursday, 10 February 2000
   4:30 pm
   Wean Hall 7500
**all ECE students interested in Law and on-line publishing***


Andy Wyszkowski and colleagues will provide an introduction
to West Group, the leading provider of information and productivity
solutions to the U.S. legal market. In their 130+ year history, 
have built the strongest brand name in the profession, employing
over 8,000 people, generating more than $1.3 billion in annual 
revenue, and producing more than 4,000 online, CD-ROM, and print
products. West Group is part of The Thomson Corporation, an 
international information publishing powerhouse. Headquartered
in Minnesota, West Group was formed when West Publishing and 
Thomson Legal Publishing merged in June 1996.  

West Group publishes information in print/electronic forms and
includes renowned names such as Bancroft-Whitney; Banks-Baldwin;
Clark Boardman Callaghan; Foundation Press; Information America;
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing; The Rutter Group; West Publishing 
and Westlaw, the online service that contains more than 10,000 legal,
financial and news databases, including extensive information from
Dow Jones Interactive.

Westlaw, accessible through proprietary Westmate software or on the
Internet through westlaw.com, is the only research service with
West Group's exclusive headnotes, synopses, editorial enhancements 
and key number references. Subscribers can search Westlaw by using
Boolean commands or Natural Language commands through WIN (Westlaw
is Natural). Westlaw can also be accessed by voice-activation that
enables researchers to enter Westlaw commands and search requests by 
speaking into a microphone.

West Group offers several other services over the Web, including
KeyCite, a citation research service with fully integrated 
searching capabilities; Lawoffice.com, an award-winning Web site
offering general legal information and a directory of more than one
million legal professionals (also available via Westlaw and on
CD-ROM); WestDoc, the on-demand document-retrieval service; and
lawschool.westlaw.com, an online learning environment for law students.
All of these services are available through the westlaw.com
home page.

They publish more than 500 CD-ROM libraries containing
case law, statutes and other legal material, and produce over
75 million print volumes each year. 

Representatives from the company will be on hand to discuss
career opportunities with interested students in technical
writing, business, CS, EE, Information Systems, and related
fields.