NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced the launch of the “Get Connected for a Cause” campaign designed to raise money for The Smile Train, a nonprofit organization that provides free cleft surgeries for needy children in the world’s poorest countries. Between November 16 and December 31, LexisNexis will donate $5 to The Smile Train for each in-house counsel who joins Martindale-Hubbell^® Connected — the premier global online network for legal professionals. The company will donate an additional dollar for each connection made within the online network by any in-house counsel member during this period. There is no cost to join Martindale-Hubbell Connected.

“Martindale-Hubbell Connected has grown by leaps and bounds since its launch earlier this year,” said John Lipsey, vice president, corporate counsel services at LexisNexis^® Martindale-Hubbell^®. “Our goal is to provide the corporate counsel community with an opportunity to join a valuable professional network designed to meet their needs and contribute to a great cause this holiday season by helping us raise money for The Smile Train.”

Martindale-Hubbell Connected is a global online community designed specifically for the needs of corporate counsel attorneys, law firm lawyers and other legal professionals that enables them to connect, network, communicate and collaborate in a trusted and authenticated environment. Launched in March 2009 with 3,000 members, the network has grown to more than 22,000 members.

“The ‘Get Connected for a Cause’ campaign will help put smiles on the faces of poor children around the world born with unrepaired clefts,” Smile Train Co-Founder and President Brian Mullaney said. “Donations from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell can have a tremendous impact as cleft surgeries cost as little as $250, take as little as 45 minutes to perform, and change a child’s life forever.”

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis^® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. A member of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: ENL - News) (NYSE: RUK - News) (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.

About The Smile Train

The Smile Train is the world’s leading cleft charity with thousands of partners and programs in 76 of the world’s poorest countries. Our mission is to help the more than 4.7 million children in developing countries who are suffering with unrepaired clefts. We provide free cleft surgery to children from poor families that give children not just a new smile, but a new life. Now in its tenth year, The Smile Train will help its 500,000th child this year.

LexisNexis
John Michaels, 202-857-9121
john.michaels@lexisnexis.com
OR
The Smile Train
Alexis Thomas, 212-689-9199 ext. 253
athomas@smiletrain.org