AEA Partners With LawRoom.com to Offer Its Members Automated Answers to Employment Law Questions.

Business Editors/Technology and Legal Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000

The American Electronics Association (AEA) announced today a new partnership with LawRoom.com, a unique web-based service providing automated answers to over 6000 employment law questions.

The endorsement will provide AEA's 3000 high-tech member companies the opportunity to access answers to everyday law questions that, at times, can be frustrating to find and difficult to understand. In addition, employers have the comfort of knowing that LawRoom answers were jointly developed with Littler Mendelson, the nation's largest employment law firm.

Angela Pellegrino, Director of HR Internet Solutions, said, "With the escalating potential for HR litigation, high-tech companies -- including the mushrooming dot.com firms -- must keep up to speed with the law and its ramifications. More often than not, management is unaware of laws -- or changes in the laws -- that can profoundly impact their business and ultimately, their bottom-line. LawRoom can help AEA members develop an HR infrastructure or strengthen one. Either way, they'll be better able to recognize and avoid potential employment lawsuits."

LawRoom's CEO and founder, Ralph Yanello, a lawyer with 20 years experience, realized the traditional delivery of legal services was both inefficient and too costly. These barriers denied most people access to the very law that governed their lives and businesses. In 1992, Yanello's team started research and development of a new concept--to demystify the law and make it easy and affordable to access.

Yanello's goal was to empower company management by providing them with "smart information." LawRoom uses proprietary software that carefully considers specific aspects of a company's profile and, when queried, instantly provides answers specifically tailored to the situation.

LawRoom is available for $225-$1,500 per year, depending on a company's employment. An exclusive 30% discount is available to AEA member firms.

The American Electronics Association is the nation's largest high-tech trade group, representing more than 3,000 U.S.-based technology companies. Membership spans the industry product and service spectrum, from semiconductors and software to computers, Internet and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels, Tokyo and Beijing, AEA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. For 57 years, AEA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community.