The Dolan Company (NYSE: DM), a leading provider of professional services and business information to legal, financial and real estate sectors in the United States, today announced financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2012. “The second quarter was challenging for our two largest processing businesses,” said James P. Dolan, chairman, chief executive officer and president. "We continue to anticipate the backlog of pending and future mortgage foreclosures that we believe will work its way through the system. And our e-discovery business showed only single-digit growth because of lumpiness of revenues from larger clients due to timing of matters. However, as a result of new matters that are starting to be processed and our current pipeline, we believe our e-discovery business will be stronger in the second half of this year.” “Our Business Information segment tracked to our expectations and had a solid second quarter,” Dolan said. “The public notice advertising business showed modest growth while margins for the entire segment increased sharply compared to last year as a result of our employees’ hard work reorganizing and centralizing certain parts of the division.” Dolan said that during the quarter the pace of new mortgage default referrals had not yet changed materially. “Although we see signs of progress among the major mortgage servicers, we believe the required new procedures at the state and federal level, as well as political considerations, may be temporarily slowing the pace of new default referrals. However, we are encouraged that meaningful price increases instituted by Fannie Mae last week should benefit our law firm partners and the mortgage default processing industry going forward. We continue to view the default referral situation as deferred business, and believe that our National Default Exchange, or NDeX, is well positioned to gain market share and be the provider of choice for mortgage default services as the pace of default referrals improves,” Dolan said.
