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EXHIBIT 5
[LETTERHEAD OF NEXSEN PRUET JACOBS & POLLARD, LLP]
October 16, 2000
Integrated Business Systems and Services, Inc.
115 Atrium Way, Suite 228
Columbia, South Carolina 29223
RE: Form S-3 Registration Statement
Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to Integrated Business Systems and Services,
Inc., a South Carolina corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the
registration of 7,903,215 shares of the Company's no par value common stock
(the "Common Stock"), pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Registration
Statement").
We have examined and are familiar with the Articles of Incorporation
and the Bylaws of the Company, and have examined the originals, or copies
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of corporate records,
including minute books, of the Company. We have also examined the Registration
Statement and such statutes and other records, instruments and documents
pertaining thereto that we have deemed necessary to examine for the purposes of
this opinion. In our examination, we have assumed the completeness and
authenticity of any document submitted to us as an original, the completeness
and conformity to the originals of any document submitted to us as a copy, the
authenticity of the originals of such copies, the genuineness of all signatures
and the legal capacity and mental competence of natural persons.
On the basis of and in reliance upon the foregoing, we are of the
opinion that the shares of Common Stock registered under the Registration
Statement (in the form declared effective by the Commission) are legally
issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
This opinion is being rendered to be effective as of the effective
date of the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the filing of this
opinion, or copies thereof, as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to
the statement made regarding our firm under the caption "Legal Matters" in the
prospectus included in the Registration Statement, but we do not thereby admit
that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under the
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and
regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ NEXSEN PRUET JACOBS & POLLARD, LLP
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