Transaction in Own Shares

Legal & General Group PLC
25 January 2008

Legal & General Group Plc


Transaction in Own Shares

Legal & General Group Plc announces that on 25 January 2008 it purchased for
cancellation 2,598,771 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each through Lehman Brothers.
The highest price paid was 130.6p per share and the lowest price paid was 129.2p
per share.



Rossella Pagano
Assistant Company Secretary
25 January 2008


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