Exhibit 00.1


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Legal Research Center Signs Product Development Agreement

With Plugged In Software to Create Collaborative

Legal Knowledge Management Solutions on the Internet


Minneapolis -- December 18, 2001 -- Legal Research Center, Inc. (OTC: LRCI), the
nation's leading provider of outsourced legal research and writing services, has
entered into a strategic business alliance with Plugged In Software to develop a
"next generation" Web-based platform that will allow corporate legal departments
to efficiently manage their legal knowledge.

     LRC  and   Plugged  In  will  be  working   together  to  create  a  unique
collaborative  knowledge management solution designed specifically for the legal
profession.  The alliance brings together LRC's expertise in traditional methods
of legal  research with Plugged In's  leading-edge  technology  to  dramatically
enhance the process of information management and exchange across the Internet.

     "Plugged In's information  exchange  technology goes to the next level with
respect to how the Internet  will be used by  businesses  and their law firms to
manage legal knowledge," said Christopher Ljungkull,  chief executive officer of
Minneapolis-based  LRC. "Our new Web-based platform will transform how law firms
and corporations  store,  access and then re-use their proprietary  intellectual
capital by  effectively  creating  communities  of knowledge  between  corporate
counsel and their outside law firms."


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     According  to  Ljungkull,  the new  platform is designed to help  corporate
legal  departments  reduce soaring legal expenses by reducing  duplicative work.
The technology and expertise  provided by LRC and Plugged In will allow in-house
counsel to virtually  eliminate redundant research efforts and costs, and better
leverage the intellectual  capital of in-house and outside counsel. It will also
empower  law firms to  leverage  their work  product  far more  effectively  for
multiple clients.

     "LRC's depth of experience in developing work product retrieval systems for
corporate legal departments,  together with our next-generation technology, will
help corporate  counsel to unlock the value of the legal  knowledge that already
exists  in their  collective  file  cabinets,"  said  Bernadette  Hyland,  chief
executive officer of Plugged In Software.  "We can accomplish this by building a
comprehensive  index for all of the  memos,  briefs  and other  legal  materials
created for or used by the  corporate  legal  department.  This index will allow
lawyers to uncover  specific  issues that have  already  been asked and answered
with incredible specificity."

     "This agreement further strengthens LRC's e-commerce business strategy in a
way that is compatible  with our core  competency of producing  industry-leading
outsourced legal research and writing services," said James Seidl,  president of
LRC.   "Plugged  In's  technology  will  enable  corporate  law  departments  to
efficiently  retrieve and distribute  legal data and information  from disparate
sources regardless of platform or document format."

     Legal  Research  Center  (www.lrci.com)  offers legal  research and writing
services to attorneys in corporate and private  practice  throughout  the world.
Based  in  Minneapolis  and  founded  in  1978,   LRC's  work  products  include
compliance-related  multijurisdictional  surveys,  office memoranda,  and formal
court-ready  documents  such as trial  and  appellate  briefs.  LRC's  knowledge
management  services include work product database design and facilitation,  Web
site content  creation,  and compliance  training.  LRC's nationally  recognized
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 U.S.

     Plugged  In  Software   (www.pisoftware.com)  produces  Tucana  Intelligent
Connections(TM),  an innovative  distributed  database  technology  for metadata
management.  Plugged In's technology  provides a  revolutionary  new approach to
managing  information  locally and  accessing  it  globally.  Based in Brisbane,
Australia  and  founded in 1995,  Plugged  In  delivers  information  management
solutions based on Tucana for enterprises and online publishers.