Exhibit 99.2

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Heller Financial Selects Legal Research Center

As Preferred Provider of Outsourced Legal Research

     Minneapolis - May 19, 2000 - Legal Research Center,  Inc. (OTC: LRCI) today
announced  that  Heller  Financial,  Inc.  (NYSE:  HF) has  selected  LRC as its
preferred   provider  of  outsourced  legal  research,   writing  and  knowledge
management  services.

     According  to Debra H.  Snider,  general  counsel and chief  administrative
officer of  Chicago-based  Heller  Financial,  LRC was  selected  because of its
passion for  excellence and its  commitment to customer  service,  technological
innovation and strategic partnering.

     "The selection of LRC is part of our law  department's  strategic vision to
develop  partnerships with key law firms and legal service providers in order to
obtain the highest-quality,  highest-value,  strategic counsel and transactional
support for Heller's worldwide  commercial finance business," said Snider.  "LRC
understands  our  business,  brings unique value to our legal  function,  and is
culturally committed to our business and legal service goals."

     Heller's law department is initially partnering with LRC on two significant
legal service  initiatives:

     1)   Unbundling and  outsourcing  the legal research  function--to  enhance
          research  support for Heller's  in-house and outside  counsel,  reduce
          research costs and cycle time, and improve access to legal and factual
          information; and

     2)   Developing a workproduct  database system--to store and systematically
          reuse the  critical  knowledge  generated  by  Heller's  in-house  and
          outside legal counsel and service providers.

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     "Heller's law  department  has  discovered a new and better way to practice
corporate   law,"  said  James  Seidl,   president  of  LRC.  "By  pioneering  a
revolutionary  business  dynamic called  `transactional  strategic  partnering',
Heller has experienced  corporate-wide  improvements  in legal service  quality,
productivity,  and cost-efficiency,  while at the same time delivering increased
revenue to its strategic partners. The Heller Story is the most exciting success
story in the legal  profession  today.  We are honored to join the Heller  legal
team and committed to its continuing success."

     Heller  Financial,  Inc.,  (http://www.hellerfinancial.com)  is a worldwide
commercial  finance  company  providing a broad range of financing  solutions to
middle-market  and small  business  clients.  With  nearly $19  billion in total
assets,  Heller offers equipment financing and leasing,  sales finance programs,
collateral- and cash flow-based  financing,  financing for healthcare  companies
and financing  for  commercial  real estate.  The Forbes 500 company also offers
trade  finance,  factoring,  asset-based  lending,  leasing  and vendor  finance
products and programs to clients in Europe,  Asia,  Australia and Latin America.
Heller's  common  stock is  listed  as "HF" on the New York  and  Chicago  Stock
Exchanges.

     Minneapolis-based  Legal  Research  Center   (http://www.lrci.com)   offers
industry-leading  legal research and writing  services to attorneys in corporate
and private practice  throughout the world.  Founded in 1978, LRC's workproducts
include  compliance-related  multijurisdictional  surveys, office memoranda, and
formal court-ready documents such as trial and appellate briefs. LRC's knowledge
management  offerings  include  workproduct  database  design and  facilitation,
website content creation, and compliance training services. LRC has a core staff
of more than 100 research attorneys,  editors and administrators.  Additionally,
LRC accesses a global network of more than 4500 legal subject-matter experts who
work in  conjunction  with  LRC's  core  staff on  selected  assignments.  LRC's
research  attorneys are honors graduates who have practiced law for at least two
years,  and many for over 25, in major law firms and corporate  law  departments
throughout the United States.

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