ADVISORY/Public Interest Advocates Plan to Take the Offensive Against Profit Interests; Ralph Nader to Deliver Keynote Address.

Assignment/Legal Editors

ADVISORY...For Friday (March 23)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Who:                 University of San Diego Center for Public
                     Interest Law

What:                Public Interest Law Summit: Taking the Offensive

When:                Friday/Saturday, March 23/24, 2001

Purpose:             This unprecedented gathering of public interest
                     advocates will formulate a plan to take the
                     offensive against organized profit interests that
                     have kept the public interest movement on the
                     defensive for the past 25 years.

Location:            University of San Diego campus
                     5998 Alcala Park
                     San Diego, CA  92110

Friday, March 23,
 2001:               Noon-2:00pm   Opening Luncheon,
                                     Ralph Nader, Keynote Speaker
                     2:30-4:15pm   Session - Campaign Finance Reform
                     4:45-6:30pm   Session - Legislative Reform
                     7:00-9:00pm   CPIL 20th Anniversary Banquet

Saturday, March 24,
 2001:               9:00-11:45am  Session - Court Strategy
                     1:15-4:00pm   Session - Agency Reform
                     4:00pm        Adjournment

Speakers:            Session - Campaign Finance Reform:

                     L. Scott Harshbarger, President and Chief
                        Executive Officer, Common Cause
                     Frank Clemente, Director, Public Citizen Congress
                        Watch
                     Charles Lewis, Executive Director, Center for
                        Public Integrity
                     Nick Nyhart, Executive Director, Public Campaign
                     E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Executive Director, Brennan
                        Center for Justice, New York University School
                        of Law

                     Session - Legislative Reform:

                     Gene Karpinski, Executive Director, U.S. Public
                        Interest Research Group
                     Gene Kimmelman, Co-Director, Washington D.C.
                        Office of Consumers Union
                     Charles R. Halpern, Chairman of the Board, Demos:
                        A Network for Ideas and Action
                     Harvey Rosenfield, Executive Director, Foundation
                        for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

                     Session - Court Strategy:

                     Robert C. Fellmeth, Price Professor in Public
                        Interest Law, University of San Diego School
                        of Law; Executive Director, Center for Public
                        Interest Law
                     Alan B. Morrison, Director Emeritus, Public
                        Citizen Litigation Group
                     Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil
                        Liberties Union; Professor of Law, New York
                        Law School
                     Patricia Sturdevant, Executive Director and
                        General Counsel, National Association of
                        Consumer Advocates
                     Theodore M. Shaw, Associate Director/Counsel,
                        NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

                     Session - Agency Reform:

                     Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen
                     David G. Hawkins, Director of Air and Energy
                        Program, National Resources Defense Council;
                        Patricia M. Sullivan, Environmental Chair
                     Jim Hightower, Former Texas Agriculture
                        Commissioner, radio journalist and consumer
                        advocate
                     David A. Swankin, President and CEO, Citizen
                        Advocacy Center
                     Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., Director, Public Citizen
                        Health Research Group