NEW YORK (January 5, 2010) – ALM Legal Intelligence, a leading source of business intelligence for the legal profession, today introduced ALM Pulse, a new business development application for aggregating, tracking and filtering Web-based content related to law firms and their clients. ALM Pulse reads and analyzes news stories from more than 3,000 traditional media, blogs and other Web-based sources, based on user-specified criteria. Users can receive e-mail alerts showing critical events or can browse the information through the ALM Pulse Web site. For more information, visit http://pulse.law.com/info.

The service also includes coverage of comments and reports on global public and private companies from more than 20,000 sell-side analysts, industry analysts and key opinion leaders, as well as data on law firms, M&A deals, bankruptcies, debt restructurings, credit downgrades and reorganizations.

“ALM Pulse provides important business development and client management tools for law firm professionals, stimulating ideas for new contacts and ensuring that law firms stay in front of events that affect clients,” said Kevin Iredell, vice president, ALM Legal Intelligence. “ALM Pulse can help law firms anticipate the needs of existing clients and identify new business potential across a wide range of industries, while tracking reporting on their own firms and competitors.”

Legal and business professionals can create portfolios or watch lists to easily monitor key events on the law firms or clients they follow. Daily e-mail alerts on the latest law firm or company events can be delivered to users’ inboxes or mobile devices. Users can click on onscreen information to drill down for details and perform advanced searches by company name, industry, event type or date.

Additional information can be obtained by e-mailing almlegalintel@alm.com or calling 1-(888) 770-5647.

ALM Pulse is powered by the Alacra Pulse platform. Alacra builds online applications and software to help clients find, package and present business information. Worldwide, more than 600 investment and commercial banks, management consulting firms, law firms, and other corporations, representing 50,000+ end users worldwide, use Alacra to effectively find and deploy business information in their daily workflow. For more information, visit www.alacra.com.

ALM Legal Intelligence offers detailed business information for and about the legal industry, focused on the top U.S. and international law firms. The division’s online research Web service, www.almlegalintel.com, provides subscribers with direct, on-demand access to ALI’s extensive database of surveys, rankings and lists related to law firms and the legal industry. The site also includes an online store where non-subscribers can, on an individual basis, purchase and download preformatted individual law firm reports, ALI Research reports and selected current-year survey data. ALM Legal Intelligence is a division of ALM.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

ALM, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum are trademarks or registered trademarks of ALM Media Properties, LLC or affiliated entities.

Contact:

Lee Feldman, Peters & Feldman for ALM

Phone: (203) 341-8922

E-mail: lfeldman@alm.com