Perfect Access Speer and TutorPro Partner to Provide Legal Application Training to U.S. Law Firms 

UK-based Firm's E-Learning Products Will Ease U.S. Lawyers' IT Training Headaches

New York, NY/Horsham, UK, August 23, 2001 - Perfect Access Speer, a leader in software education and consulting for law and financial firms, is pleased to announce its partnership with TutorPro, a UK-based provider of legal application training. Perfect Access Speer will offer TutorPro's web based training products to its law firm clients nationwide, enabling law firm CIOs, CTOs and other technology officers to quickly implement customized training and e-learning for their staff.

TutorPro has been providing Computer Based Training (CBT) and e-learning to the European legal market for more than twelve years. Its flagship product offers a library of customizable modules on computer skills training including Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, iManage, Elite, InterAction, and other legal specific applications. Along with this library is a product called TutorAuthor that allows trainers to quickly build fully featured interactive courses, tests, tutorials and online support systems in days instead of the weeks or months associated with alternative systems. Another feature, TutorVision, is a student management tool that administrators can use to create customized training plans, track completion of tests, skills, modules and curriculum, as well as individual and group results, time spent in lessons and progress against curriculum.

"TutorPro is a terrific company that has made a significant impact in European law firms, and we felt that its products could be of tremendous value to our U.S.-based law firm clients," said Bonnie Speer McGrath, President of Perfect Access Speer. "The TutorPro Authoring Tool requires no technical programming skills, so it can be easily mastered by training staff in a very short amount of time. Our customers have a diverse range of training needs, and the flexibility of TutorPro is well-suited to those needs."

"We have selected Perfect Access Speer to be our primary reseller in the U.S. market given their national strength and commitment to blended learning solutions," said Sue Pasfield, Director of TutorPro.

About Perfect Access Speer
Perfect Access Speer (www.PASpeer.com) is a leader in software education and consulting, bringing both traditional and e-learning solutions to its clients. With offices in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, and Minneapolis, the company's client list includes more than sixty percent of the top 250 law firms in the United States, as well as prestigious companies in financial services and the Fortune 500. Perfect Access Speer is a Kaplan Professional Company, a unit of Kaplan, Inc., (www.kaplan.com), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO).

About TutorPro
TutorPro (www.tutorpro.com) has been developing customizable courseware for industry standard applications such as MSOffice, Lotus Notes, Windows, Internet Explorer and a growing range of legal and other IT applications. Providing CBT and e-learning for end-user applications for over 12 years, TutorPro is used by more than one million users in corporations all over the world. With expertise in the production of fully customizable courseware, authoring tools and student management systems, TutorPro empowers software trainers to have top quality e-learning with minimal outlay and maximum speed of development.

Kaplan, Inc. (www.kaplan.com) is a leading educational and career services company owned by the renowned Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Kaplan is a sister company to Newsweek Magazine.

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