Virginia Beach City Schools Helps Students Prepare for Rewarding Legal Careers with the SmartDraw Legal Edition

SmartDraw Legal Edition Helps Teachers and Students Create Compelling Legal Graphics in Minutes

San Diego, CA. — July 26, 2007 - SmartDraw.com, creator of SmartDraw®, the world's most popular business graphics software, today announced that Virginia Beach City Schools has purchased a software license allowing them to install and use SmartDraw Legal Edition on an unlimited number of computers. The SmartDraw Legal Edition enables teachers and students in the school's Legal Systems Administration course to create polished legal graphics in minutes, including crime scenes, accident reconstructions, timelines, evidence charts, forensics drawings, legal flowcharts and more.

"The SmartDraw Legal Edition will help students understand legal concepts, and reinforce what they are learning," said Rhonda Doak, Business and Information Technology Coordinator of Virginia Beach City Schools. "It will also help them with their presentation skills."

Virginia Beach City Schools offers the Legal Systems Administration course at their Technical Career Education Center. The class offers a variety of hands-on training, preparing students for entry level positions in law firms and corporate legal departments. Students will use the SmartDraw Legal Edition in class for the creation of legal documents for presentations.

The SmartDraw Legal Edition includes a rich library of graphics and symbols specifically designed to help legal professionals create charts and diagrams of all kinds-including timelines, accident reconstruction diagrams, crime scenes diagrams, mediation charts and more-for case documentation and courtroom presentation. Unlike more complicated graphics programs written for a technical users, SmartDraw is designed for ordinary computer users -allowing them to produce professional-quality graphics with no prior training. The program also includes dozens of SmartTemplates, each loaded with a diagram-specific command set and step-by-step instructions, turning even novice users into instant experts.

SmartDraw offers a variety of licensing options and programs, including a Freedom License that allows an entire departments or organizations to install and use SmartDraw on any computer. A free trial is available at www.smartdraw.com and includes both online and telephone technical support.

About SmartDraw.com
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the world's most popular business graphics software. SmartDraw allows anyone to create professional-quality business graphics in minutes-no experience or training required. The Company is the leader in the business graphics market, a market made up of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but who lack the time and expertise to learn software designed for graphics professionals. In addition to SmartDraw 2007 intended for general business use, there are also SmartDraw Healthcare and SmartDraw Legal editions with graphics and applications unique to their respective fields. In mid-2006, SmartDraw.com surpassed the ten millionth download of SmartDraw.

Headquartered in San Diego, CA, SmartDraw.com is privately-held and counts more than half the Fortune 500 among its customers. To download a free trial of SmartDraw 2007, please visit: www.smartdrawlegal.com.

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