California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to Address FCD Dinner on May 15.

ORANGE, Calif. -- California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will be the featured speaker at this month's Forum for Corporate Directors dinner event, providing his views on corporate governance and business responsibility in today's global business environment.

"This should be an exciting and informative presentation by our state attorney general because as our economy in California has resumed a very rapid growth rate many corporate boards of directors are struggling with pressures to meet new challenges from both a highly competitive global environment and more restrictive legal oversight," explained Peter Craig, FCD chairman.

"As Mr. Lockyer himself has emphasized, a healthy economy is vital to California's international prominence," he continued. "However, business misdeeds and corporate wrongdoing have no place in a fair market so the state attorney general's office has successfully gone after corporate wrongdoers, has pursued myriad consumer protection programs, and provided injunctive relief that prevents harm to consumers and the marketplace. Bill Lockyer will provide us with his outlook on corporate governance and social responsibility going forward."

This special program of the Forum for Corporate Directors will be held on Monday evening, May 15, at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel in Costa Mesa. Program registration and a cocktail reception begin at 5:30 p.m., with the dinner and program starting at 6:30 p.m. This program is free to current FCD members. The event charge is $75 for non-members. Students and faculty at The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine, an FCD partner and corporate sponsor, may attend at the discounted price of $60 per person.

Persons interested in attending may register online for this dinner event on the FCD Web site at: https://www.fcdoc.org/calendar/register.asp?CalendarID=8

About Forum for Corporate Directors

Founded in 1991, the Forum for Corporate Directors is Orange County's leading resource for assisting individual directors and entire boards to achieve excellence in corporate governance. FCD is a non-profit organization that offers dynamic forums for director peer interaction, conducts ISS-certified director education and development programs, and provides directors and executives of public and private companies the opportunity to gain valuable ideas and information that promote board leadership and corporate governance.

The FCD's members include many of Southern California's top business and corporate leaders. In addition, corporate members include Advanced Medical Optics, Alacer Corp., Emulex Corp., Multi-Fineline Electronix, Microsemi Corp., New Century Financial, Powerwave Technologies, QLogic Corp., Resources Global Professionals, SRS Labs, The Impac Companies, and UC Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business Executive MBA Programs.