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Top Pepperdine University Law Professors Join NextClient.com™ Advisory Board

Los Angeles, CA – July 21, 2000. Janet E. Kerr and Gregory L. Ogden, two of California's most respected law professors, have joined the Strategic Advisory Board of NextClient.com, a newly launched Web site content provider. NextClient.com specializes in providing attorneys with ways to utilize the Internet to further their practices and increase their client bases.

Both Kerr and Ogden are professors at the Pepperdine University School of Law and are proactive in advancing the use of high-technology in the legal industry. As advisory board members to NextClient.com, they will focus on ethical concerns and strategic business development.

Kerr, a Pepperdine law professor since 1983, also serves as executive director of the university's new Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law, which is the first curriculum of its kind. In addition, she is a lecturer and special consultant to the People's Republic of China. Prior to her professorial duties, she was a staff attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles and New York, and has been a consultant and expert witness in many high-profile securities and corporate cases and offerings. She has advised numerous start-up companies and is taking an active role in molding NextClient.com's Web-based services.

Ogden, a Pepperdine law professor for 22 years, has served since 1985 as director of the Ira Sherman Center for Ethical Awareness at Pepperdine University. A noted speaker on the subject of legal ethics, he has prepared several consultant reports on governmental ethics standards for the Administrative Conference of the United States. His publication credits began as a senior research editor for the U.C. Davis Law Review and include co-authoring the third through fifth editions of West's California Code of Civil Procedure Code Forms. Prior to his Pepperdine responsibilities, Ogden was a Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia University, and has also been a visiting professor of law at Notre Dame, Valparaiso University, UCLA, and USC. He was awarded the 1999 Fellowship in Administrative Law by the National Association of Administrative Law Judges.

For additional information regarding NextClient.com or its Strategic Advisory Board, visit www.nextclient.com , or call 818-550-8989.

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