June 5, 2006 - Carswell launches Litigator^TM—a revolutionary online workflow solution for Canadian litigation practitioners.

Toronto, ON – Carswell (www.carswell.com), Canada's leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets, today announced the launch of Litigator^TM (www.litigatoronline.ca)—the first of its kind online workflow solution and practice tool.

Litigator^TM contains Canada’s largest collection of online litigation resources and offers unprecedented content, features, and functionality. It is not another primary law database or research tool. It is a practice tool. At its core Litigator^TM addresses everyday practice challenges associated with bringing and pursuing a lawsuit. Litigator^TM helps practitioners with the way they practice law.

“As practitioners’ competitive landscape intensifies they need tools and resources enabling them to deal with everyday practice challenges in a more efficient and cost-effective way.” said Don Van Meer. “With Litigator^TM practitioners can significantly reduce the time spent on performing their daily tasks. They can now make critical choices with clarity and confidence.”

Carswell identified that 60% of Canadian practitioners litigate. Every day these practitioners perform a combination of seven main litigation functions: evaluation, investigation, negotiation, pleading preparation, arguing motions, trial preparation, and appeal preparation. Carswell built the product to assist and aid practitioners with these common litigation tasks and processes.

“Litigator^TM provides practitioners with just the facts they need to make critical choices: decide whether they can afford to take a case, to find out how much money is really at stake, to guage the likelihood of success, to gather intelligence on the opposing counsel, to find just the expert that may help them win their case,” said Van Meer. “These are the types of practical questions litigators grapple with on a daily basis. We designed Litigator^TM to be their capable, efficient, infallible assistant.”

Litigator^TM joins WestlaweCARSWELL’s family of premier and authoritative online legal research solutions and their logical and natural extension. Litigator’s integration with the WestlaweCARSWELL Sources gives it unprecedented depth and flexibility. The complete suite of WestlaweCARSWELL services provides practitioners with not only the “what” of a case but also the “how.” This is invaluable to all legal professionals but especially to those who litigate. Litigator's unique collection of intuitively organized content—Precedent Galleries, Quantums, Expert Directory, Profiler, Practice Guides, Commentary and Current Awareness, and Lawyer Directory—combined with precision searching tools, gives litigators the power they need to present a polished case.

There has never been a resource so in tune with the practice of litigation. It does the heavy lifting so that practitioners can do the heavy thinking … which is exactly what litigation practitioners’ clients expect.

About Carswell

Carswell (www.carswell.com) is Canada's leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets. Headquartered in Toronto, ON, Carswell provides integrated information in a range of formats, including books, loose-leaf services, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMS and online. Carswell is a business within The Thomson Corporation.

About The Thomson Corporation

The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of $8.70 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.  Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare.  With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and
provides services in approximately 130 countries.  The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).        

For more information, please contact:

Jayne Jackson                                

Media Relations                              

Carswell                                         

416.298.5007                                  

jayne.jackson@thomson.com