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Exhibit 99
(THE DOLAN COMPANY LOGO)
THE DOLAN COMPANY REPORTS SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
 
Second quarter revenues decreased 12.3% year-over-year to $69.4 million
 
 
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company was $2.6 million, or $0.09 per diluted share
 
 
Cash earnings were $5.9 million, or $0.19 per diluted share (See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below)
 
 
Adjusted EBITDA was $12.9 million (See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below)
 
 
Company revises guidance for 2011 to reflect current foreclosure environment and the ACT acquisition
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 2, 2011 — The Dolan Company (NYSE: DM), a leading provider of professional processing services as well as business information to legal, financial and real estate sectors in the United States, today announced financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2011.
“The second quarter remained challenging as we continue to experience a slowdown in our foreclosure processing business. Regulatory scrutiny and negotiated process change have caused mortgage servicers to slow down foreclosure referrals while they review their internal procedures,” said James P. Dolan, chairman, chief executive officer and president. He said the slowdown in default referrals directly affected The Dolan Company’s Professional Services Division and also affected its Business Information Division, where default-related public notices have been an important revenue source.
“Although this process has dragged on longer than we had hoped, we believe it is a temporary slowdown,” Dolan said. “There continues to be an enormous backlog of pending and future foreclosures, and we believe the mortgage servicers are moving steadily towards amended procedures that will allow an increased pace of referrals into foreclosures.
“Meanwhile, our corporate rebalancing efforts are on track with the important addition of ACT Litigation Services to our DiscoverReady e-discovery platform. ACT is a superb fit and extends our e-discovery business into several significant areas of technology and process development, giving us a more powerful combination of processing services to offer our growing client list,” Dolan said.

 

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“In the second quarter, revenues at our National Default Exchange, or NDeX, declined by almost 18% year-over-year. Despite the slower market, we believe we held our market share in most of our more mature states and we continued to see market share gains in some of our newer states such as Florida and Georgia. We have taken steps to reduce our cost structure and become more efficient, and we will reduce our cost structure further as we strive to recapture our margins, even on temporarily lower industry-wide volumes,” said Dolan.
“Although DiscoverReady, our electronic discovery business, showed a modest revenue decline this quarter, we attribute it in part to a challenging comparison. A year ago DiscoverReady had a couple of extremely large legal matters that allowed it to have its best quarter ever. However, DiscoverReady’s revenues are up more than 20% sequentially from the first quarter of this year and we continue to see strong growth from new clients. With the addition of ACT, we are even more excited about the growth opportunities for this business and we are making good progress in diversifying DiscoverReady’s customer mix. The path to our initial goal of building our e-discovery subsidiary into a $100 million business has now become much clearer,” Dolan said.
“Within our Business Information Division, margins were reduced by the decline in higher-margin public notice revenues related to mortgage defaults. We are in the process of reorganizing and centralizing some parts of the division to reduce costs and improve margins in the future. Our new initiatives in the division are on plan and we continue to be optimistic about DataStream’s growth opportunities as well as the newly launched Legislative Information Services of America,” Dolan said.
“Previously we were cautious about the second quarter given the foreclosure industry backdrop that exists. We remain cautious as we think about our foreclosure processing business, given the regulatory activities and other industry factors, but we continue to believe this is a matter of revenue timing. A very large amount of foreclosure work remains to come, years worth of work, and we are positioned to handle very large volumes when our law firm affiliates and their servicer clients are ready to refer the mortgage default files,” Dolan said.
Full Year 2011 Guidance
Based on second quarter results, the addition of ACT, which is accretive to cash earnings immediately, and the outlook for the remainder of 2011, the company is revising its full-year financial guidance as follows:
     
    2011 Financial Guidance
    (dollars in millions, except per share numbers)
Total revenues
  $297 - $305
Adjusted EBITDA
  $61 - $67
Cash earnings per diluted share
  $0.90 - $1.04

 

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This guidance presumes the following: 1) no significant improvement in foreclosure volumes for the remainder of the year; 2) operating expenses as a percent of total revenues are 90.5% to 91.8%; 3) non-controlling interest payments are $1.0 to $1.2 million; 4) interest expense is $6.3 to $6.4 million; 5) cash distributions to holders of non-controlling interest are $1.0 to $1.2 million; 6) the tax rate is 38% to 39%; and 7) fully diluted shares outstanding of 30.3 to 30.6 million.
Although this guidance includes the anticipated effect of the ACT acquisition, it excludes the effect of any other businesses that may be acquired for the remainder of 2011. It also assumes that there will be no additional material effect on results of operations from current or future foreclosure-related government legislation, programs or investigations, or from lender-based programs or moratoria. These include, but are not limited to, programs, legislation, investigations and moratoria detailed in “Regulatory Environment” and “Risk Factors” in the company’s annual report on Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2010.
No guidance for Net income attributable to The Dolan Company per diluted share (a GAAP financial measure) is included in this release. This is because, with last week’s purchase of the assets of ACT Litigation Services, Inc., the company is still working to calculate the amortization expense on the intangible assets acquired from ACT and the fair value adjustment of the contingent consideration, and therefore it cannot provide an accurate estimate of this measure at this time.
Second Quarter 2011
Financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2011, and 2010 are as follows:
                         
    Three Months     Three Months        
    Ended     Ended        
    June 30, 2011     June 30, 2010     Year-over-Year  
Dollars in thousands, except per share data   (unaudited)     (unaudited)     % Change  
Total revenues
  $ 69,439     $ 79,209       (12.3 )%
Professional Services Division revenues
    48,416       56,454       (14.2 )%
Business Information Division revenues
    21,023       22,755       (7.6 )%
Operating income
    5,581       16,473       (66.1 )%
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company
    2,572       8,632       (70.2 )%
Adjusted EBITDA *
    12,906       24,155       (46.6 )%
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company per diluted share
  $ 0.09     $ 0.29       (69.0 )%
Cash earnings *
    5,884       11,816       (50.2 )%
Cash earnings per diluted share *
  $ 0.19     $ 0.39       (51.3 )%
 
     
*  
Please refer to the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP and why the company believes these are important measures of performance.
Professional Services Division Results
The Professional Services Division provides specialized processing services to the legal profession through its subsidiaries, NDeX, Counsel Press, and DiscoverReady. NDeX is a leading provider of mortgage default processing services in the United States. Together, Counsel Press and DiscoverReady comprise the company’s litigation support services segment. Counsel Press is the largest provider of appellate services in the United States, and DiscoverReady provides outsourced discovery management, including document review and data management services, to major corporations and law firms.

 

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Division revenues for the second quarter were $48.4 million, a decline of 14.2% from $56.5 million in the second quarter of 2010. The decline was primarily the result of lower NDeX file volume.
NDeX received 80,800 mortgage default files for processing during the second quarter and generated $32.7 million in revenues. This compares to 86,600 files received for processing and $39.7 million in revenues in the second quarter of 2010. NDeX saw increased file growth in its newer markets, particularly Florida, but experienced a decline in its more mature markets. Although the total number of mortgage default files received decreased by only 6.8% in the quarter compared to the second quarter of 2010, a subset of that, the number foreclosure files, was down more than 20%. This was offset in part by a greater number of transfer, foreclosure restart, and mediation files. Since the processing of foreclosure files has a higher fee and margin, the change in file mix had an adverse impact on NDeX’s second quarter margins.
Litigation Support contributed $15.7 million in revenues during the second quarter of 2011, a decrease of 6.1% from the second quarter of 2010. The decrease is the result of a very strong quarter a year ago at DiscoverReady. By comparison, this segment is up more than 20% sequentially over the preceding quarter. Significant growth at new and existing clients helped offset record revenues from DiscoverReady’s two largest traditional clients last year.
Direct operating expenses within the Professional Services Division decreased 3.9% to $22.9 million during the second quarter of 2011, from $23.9 million for the same period in 2010. Even with lower file volume at NDeX, processing costs increased at some locations as a result of additional tasks and procedural changes required by the customers of NDeX’s law firm affiliates, requiring additional processing work. NDeX continues to focus on reducing costs and increasing efficiencies to offset volume declines. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased 9.4% on a year-over-year basis to $15.2 million. The increases were largely the result of investments made in DiscoverReady as well as NDeX’s Florida operations. Total Professional Services Division operating expenses as a percentage of division revenues increased to 87.9% for the quarter, from 76.3% in the second quarter of 2010. The increase is the result of negative operating leverage due to the revenue declines at NDeX as well as investments made in DiscoverReady.
Business Information Division Results
The Business Information Division publishes print and electronic business journals, court and commercial media and other highly focused information products and services, operates Web sites and produces events for targeted professional audiences in 21 geographic markets across the United States.

 

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Business Information Division revenues for the second quarter of 2011 were $21.0 million, a 7.6% decrease from $22.8 million in the second quarter of 2010. The addition of DataStream in December 2010 and Federal News Service in August 2010 helped offset significant weakness in public notice advertising. The company believes that a majority of the weakness in public notice is related to temporary delays from large mortgage servicers that are deferring foreclosures as previously described.
Total operating expenses within the Business Information Division rose 6.1% to $19.4 million from the second quarter of 2010, due primarily to the additional operating costs associated with the acquisitions of DataStream and Federal News Service. However, total operating expenses from pre-existing business decreased $1.4 million on a year-over-year basis. For the second quarter of 2011, direct operating expenses increased 9.8% to $8.4 million while selling, general and administrative expenses for the division were flat year-over-year at $9.4 million.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
As of June 30, 2011, the company held $3.3 million of cash and cash equivalents, compared to $4.9 million at the end of 2010. During the second quarter of 2011, the company generated $6.2 million of cash from operating activities and $4.6 million of free cash flow, which is defined as net cash provided by operating activities minus capital expenditures. Quarterly capital expenditures were $1.7 million. Days sales outstanding were 91.3 days for the second quarter of 2011, which was up from 75.7 days in the second quarter of last year. DSO increased primarily from a slowdown of payments received from NDeX law firm customers as they experience delays in the foreclosure process and taking files to sale.
Total debt outstanding at the end of the second quarter was $134.0 million, of which $47.5 million was under a term loan facility. Net debt was $130.7 million, down $6.8 million from the second quarter of last year. The combined weighted-average interest rate on the company’s credit facilities was 2.8%. The leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was 1.8 times total debt to trailing twelve month pro forma adjusted EBITDA, up from 1.5 times as of December 31, 2010. The leverage ratio remained well below the maximum of 3.0 times allowed in the senior debt covenants.
Subsequent to the end of the second quarter, the company borrowed $60.0 million under its revolving credit facility to fund the closing payments in connection with the acquisition of ACT Litigation Services. After giving effect to this borrowing, the company had $142.0 million outstanding on its revolving credit facility and total debt of $193.1 million.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is the term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting in the United States. GAAP includes the standards, conventions, and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing transactions, and in the preparation of financial statements. In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with GAAP, The Dolan Company reports the following non-GAAP measures:
 
Adjusted EBITDA, defined as GAAP net income attributable to The Dolan Company adjusted for the impact of the following: net interest expense resulting from the company’s net cash or borrowing position, which includes non-cash interest income or expense

 

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related to the changes in fair value of interest rate swaps; income tax expense; non-cash expenses, including depreciation and amortization, charges for stock options and restricted stock the company has granted, and fair value adjustments on earnouts recorded in connection with acquisitions; non-recurring items of income or expense, if applicable; non-controlling interest; and distributions paid to holders of non-controlling interest;
 
Cash earnings, defined as GAAP net income attributable to The Dolan Company adjusted for the impact of the following: non-cash expenses, including non-cash interest income or expense related to the changes in the fair value of interest rate swaps, charges for stock options and restricted stock granted, fair value adjustments on earnouts recorded in connection with acquisitions, and amortization; certain non-recurring items of income or expense; and an adjustment to income tax expense related to the above reconciling items at the appropriate then-in-effect tax rate;
 
 
Cash earnings per diluted share, defined as cash earnings divided by the number of weighted average diluted shares outstanding; and
 
 
Free cash flow, defined as net cash provided by operating activities minus capital expenditures.
The Dolan Company provides these measures because it believes that they are helpful to investors in comparing year-over-year performance in light of certain non-recurring charges, and to better understand its operating performance and profitability, competitive position and future prospects. Non-GAAP measures should be considered in conjunction with the GAAP financial presentation and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP net income attributable to The Dolan Company. In addition, it should be noted that the company’s calculations of adjusted EBITDA, cash earnings, cash earnings per diluted share, and free cash flow may not be comparable to the calculations of such measures by other companies.
The following is a reconciliation of net income attributable to The Dolan Company to adjusted EBITDA (in thousands):
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company
  $ 2,572     $ 8,632  
 
               
Interest expense, net
    1,365       1,312  
Income tax expense
    1,870       5,673  
Amortization of intangibles
    4,359       3,973  
Depreciation expense
    1,803       2,723  
Amortization of Detroit Legal News Publishing intangible
    377       377  
Non-cash compensation expense
    1,195       752  
Non-cash fair value adjustment on earnouts recorded in connection with acquisitions
    29       294  
Non-recurring income
    (394 )      
Non-controlling interest
    168       856  
Cash distribution to holders of non-controlling interest
    (438 )     (437 )
 
           
Adjusted EBITDA
  $ 12,906     $ 24,155  
 
           

 

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The following is a reconciliation of net income attributable to The Dolan Company to cash earnings and cash earnings per diluted share (in thousands, except share and per share data):
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company
  $ 2,572     $ 8,632  
 
               
Non-cash interest income related to the change in fair value of interest rate swaps
          (302 )
Non-cash compensation expense
    1,195       752  
Non-cash fair value adjustment on earnouts recorded in connection with acquisitions
    29       294  
Amortization of intangibles
    4,359       3,973  
Amortization of Detroit Legal News Publishing intangible
    377       377  
Non-recurring income
    (394 )      
Adjustment to income tax expense related to reconciling items at effective tax rate
    (2,254 )     (1,910 )
 
           
Cash earnings
  $ 5,884     $ 11,816  
 
           
 
               
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company per diluted share (GAAP)
  $ 0.09     $ 0.29  
Change in redeemable non-controlling interest
    0.05       0.04  
 
           
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company common stockholders per diluted share (GAAP)
  $ 0.14     $ 0.33  
 
           
Cash earnings per diluted share
  $ 0.19     $ 0.39  
 
           
 
               
Weighted average diluted shares outstanding
    30,210,792       30,240,004  
Conference Call
The company has scheduled a conference call for August 2, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (7:30 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight Time). The dial-in number is (888) 517-2513, passcode 9144216#. The call will be hosted by James P. Dolan, chairman, chief executive officer and president; Scott J. Pollei, executive vice president and chief operating officer; and Vicki J. Duncomb, vice president and chief financial officer. It will be broadcast live over the Internet and will be accessible through the investor relations section of the company’s Web site at www.thedolancompany.com. Interested parties should access the webcast approximately 10 to 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to register and download any necessary software needed to listen to the call. Prior to the conference call start, a slide presentation highlighting points discussed in the second quarter conference call will be available through the investor relations section of the company Web site at www.thedolancompany.com. The webcast and slide presentation will be archived online and will be available at the investor relations section of the company Web site for a period of 21 days after the call.

 

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Statement Regarding Forward Looking Information
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include statements related to the company’s “guidance” as well as statements using words such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “believe,” “continue,” “to come,” “will,” “may,” “estimate,” “assume,” “pursue,” “outlook” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the following: our businesses operate in highly competitive markets and depend on the economies and demographics of the legal, financial and real estate markets we serve, and changes in those sectors could have an adverse effect on our revenues, cash flows, and profitability; if the number of files referred to us by our mortgage default processing service law firm customers (or loan servicers and mortgage lenders we serve directly for mortgage default files in California) decreases or fails to increase, our operating results and ability to execute our growth strategy could be adversely affected; bills introduced and laws enacted to mitigate foreclosures, voluntary relief programs and voluntary halts or moratoria by servicers or lenders, as well as governmental investigations, enforcement actions, litigation and court orders, may have an adverse effect on our mortgage default processing services and public notice operations; growing our business may place a strain on our management and internal systems, processes and controls, may result in operating inefficiencies, and may negatively impact our operating margins; we intend to continue to pursue acquisition opportunities, which we may not do successfully and which may subject us to considerable business and financial risk or require us to raise additional capital or incur additional indebtedness; we depend on our senior management team and other key leaders of our business segments, and the operation and growth of our business may be negatively impacted if we lose any of their services; revenues of our subsidiary NDeX and our subsidiary DiscoverReady are each very concentrated among a few customers, thus the loss of business from these customers and a failure to attract new customers could adversely affect our operating results; certain key personnel of our subsidiary NDeX, who are also shareholders and principal attorneys of our law firm customers, may at times have interests that differ from or conflict with our interests; and the other risk factors described under “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, filed with the SEC on March 11, 2011. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Robert J. Evans, Director of Investor Relations
(612) 317-9430
Bob.evans@thedolancompany.com

 

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THE DOLAN COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
    (unaudited)        
ASSETS
               
Current assets
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 3,305     $ 4,862  
Accounts receivable, including unbilled services (net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $1,282 and $1,578 as of June 30, 2011, and December 31, 2010, respectively)
    66,493       59,801  
Unbilled pass-through costs
    5,349       7,140  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    3,770       4,186  
Income tax receivable
    1,455       4,183  
 
           
Total current assets
    80,372       80,172  
Investments
    12,898       13,808  
Property and equipment, net
    17,532       17,333  
Finite-life intangible assets, net
    186,063       195,959  
Indefinite-lived intangible assets
    226,418       225,373  
Other assets
    2,816       3,143  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 526,099     $ 535,788  
 
           
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
               
Current liabilities
               
Current portion of long-term debt
  $ 8,992     $ 7,578  
Accounts payable
    15,232       15,589  
Accrued pass-through liabilities
    11,325       18,271  
Accrued compensation
    8,332       5,409  
Accrued liabilities
    4,610       5,537  
Due to sellers of acquired businesses
    5,630       3,943  
Deferred revenue
    20,692       21,689  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    74,813       78,016  
Long-term debt, less current portion
    125,052       131,568  
Deferred income taxes
    9,338       7,794  
Other liabilities
    11,723       12,972  
 
           
Total liabilities
    220,926       230,350  
 
           
Redeemable noncontrolling interest
    17,528       26,580  
 
           
Commitments and contingencies
               
Stockholders’ equity
               
Common stock, $0.001 par value; authorized: 70,000,000 shares; outstanding: 30,577,445 and 30,511,408 shares as of June 30, 2011, and December 31, 2010, respectively
    30       30  
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; authorized: 5,000,000 shares; designated: 5,000 shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock; no shares outstanding
           
Other comprehensive loss (net of tax)
    (1,346 )     (1,298 )
Additional paid-in capital
    288,936       286,148  
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)
    25       (6,022 )
 
           
Total stockholders’ equity
    287,645       278,858  
 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 526,099     $ 535,788  
 
           

 

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The Dolan Company
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Revenues
                               
Professional Services
  $ 48,416     $ 56,454     $ 100,372     $ 112,480  
Business Information
    21,023       22,755       41,615       43,707  
 
                       
Total revenues
    69,439       79,209       141,987       156,187  
 
                       
Operating expenses
                               
Direct operating: Professional Services
    22,936       23,861       46,438       46,051  
Direct operating: Business Information
    8,373       7,624       16,711       14,540  
Selling, general and administrative
    26,828       25,639       54,602       50,827  
Amortization
    4,359       3,973       8,882       7,966  
Depreciation
    1,803       2,723       3,737       5,459  
 
                       
Total operating expenses
    64,299       63,820       130,370       124,843  
Equity in earnings of affiliates
    441       1,084       1,189       2,512  
 
                       
Operating income
    5,581       16,473       12,806       33,856  
 
                       
Non-operating income (expense)
                               
Interest expense, net of interest income
    (1,365 )     (1,614 )     (2,973 )     (3,350 )
Non-cash interest income related to interest rate swaps
          302       286       665  
Other income
    394             394        
 
                       
Total non-operating expense
    (971 )     (1,312 )     (2,293 )     (2,685 )
 
                       
Income before income taxes
    4,610       15,161       10,513       31,171  
Income tax expense
    (1,870 )     (5,673 )     (4,079 )     (11,663 )
 
                       
Net income
    2,740       9,488       6,434       19,508  
Less: Net income attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests
    (168 )     (856 )     (387 )     (1,719 )
 
                       
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company
  $ 2,572     $ 8,632     $ 6,047     $ 17,789  
 
                       
 
                               
Earnings per share — basic and diluted:
                               
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company
  $ 0.09     $ 0.29     $ 0.20     $ 0.59  
Decrease in redeemable noncontrolling interest in NDeX
    0.05       0.04       0.08       0.04  
 
                       
Net income attributable to The Dolan Company common stockholders
  $ 0.14     $ 0.33     $ 0.28     $ 0.63  
 
                       
Weighted average shares outstanding:
                               
Basic
    30,107,025       30,136,567       30,117,924       30,121,831  
Diluted
    30,210,792       30,240,004       30,252,095       30,217,885  

 

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The Dolan Company
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Cash flows from operating activities
                               
Net income
  $ 2,740     $ 9,488     $ 6,434     $ 19,508  
Distributions received from The Detroit Legal News Publishing, LLC
    700       1,400       2,100       3,500  
Distributions paid to holders of noncontrolling interests
    (438 )     (437 )     (474 )     (1,061 )
Gain on sale of investment
    (394 )           (394 )      
Non-cash operating activities:
                               
Amortization
    4,359       3,973       8,882       7,966  
Depreciation
    1,803       2,723       3,737       5,459  
Equity in earnings of affiliates
    (441 )     (1,084 )     (1,189 )     (2,512 )
Stock-based compensation expense
    1,195       752       2,033       1,358  
Deferred income taxes
    28             28        
Change in value of interest rate swap
          (296 )     (286 )     (665 )
Amortization of debt issuance costs
    98       81       186       164  
Non-cash fair value adjustment on earnouts recorded in connection with acquisitions
    29       294       358       588  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of business combinations:
                               
Accounts receivable and unbilled pass-through costs
    (917 )     (668 )     (4,850 )     (2,033 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    839       180       3,198       55  
Other assets
    (34 )     (18 )           18  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    (2,132 )     (3,340 )     (5,255 )     (605 )
Deferred revenue and other liabilities
    (1,197 )     (2,832 )     (692 )     (370 )
 
                       
Net cash provided by operating activities
    6,238       10,216       13,816       31,370  
 
                       
 
                               
Cash flows from investing activities
                               
Acquisitions and investments
    (4,986 )     (115 )     (5,071 )     (115 )
Capital expenditures
    (1,664 )     (1,442 )     (3,911 )     (3,326 )
Escrow payment received on sale of investment
    394             394        
 
                       
Net cash used in investing activities
    (6,256 )     (1,557 )     (8,588 )     (3,441 )
 
                       
 
                               
Cash flows from financing activities
                               
Net borrowings (payments) on senior revolving note
    2,500             (1,300 )     (8,000 )
Payments on senior long-term debt
    (1,250 )     (3,175 )     (2,500 )     (6,225 )
Payments on unsecured notes payable
    (603 )     (2,268 )     (1,193 )     (9,576 )
Payments for repurchase of common stock
                (1,691 )      
Proceeds from stock option exercises
          20             20  
Other
    (48 )     (50 )     (101 )     (100 )
 
                       
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    599       (5,473 )     (6,785 )     (23,881 )
 
                       
 
                               
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
    581       3,186       (1,557 )     4,048  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the period
    2,724       3,756       4,862       2,894  
 
                       
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period
  $ 3,305     $ 6,942       3,305       6,942  
 
                       

 

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