Porter, LeVay & Rose Signs Five New Clients, Opens Office in San Francisco.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2001

Porter, LeVay & Rose, Inc., a New York-based, full-service financial public relations firm that represents a wide variety of public and private companies and financial institutions, announced today that it has been retained by AMDL, Inc., Tustin, CA; Legal Access Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV; CA; Media Arts Group, Inc., San Jose, CA; Orbis Development Inc., Zephyr Cove, NV; and Upgrade International Corp., Seattle, WA.

The company also announced that it has opened an office in San Francisco, at 582 Market St., Suite 1115, to help provide these companies and other Porter, LeVay & Rose clients in the Western U.S. with convenient and timely access to its full range of investor relations, media and editorial services.

AMDL, Inc. (AMEX: ADL) is a developer and marketer of tests for the early detection of cancer and other serious diseases. Its primary product is DR-70(R), a non-invasive blood test that has been shown in clinical trials to detect the presence of 13 or more cancers simultaneously, and is made available to U.S. physicians and laboratories through a "research only" labeling exemption.

Legal Access Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: LATI), provides web-based law-related services to consumers and attorneys through its wholly owned subsidiary Tele-Lawyer, Inc. Tele-Lawyer offers web-based case management and phone services, a web-based virtual law office, web-based docketing and filing systems and web-based unbundled legal services.

Media Arts Group (NYSE: MDA) publishes the art of Thomas Kinkade, Howard Behrens, Simon Bull and Robert Lyn Nelson, and distributes their art and related collectibles through more than 5,000 independently owned galleries worldwide, an extensive network of dealers, and strategic marketing relationships with Hallmark Cards, Avon Products, Inc. and QVC, Inc.

Orbis Development, Inc. (OTC BB: ORBD) provides electronic transaction processing services for merchant customers of domestic and international banks. The company is also developing its "Global Pari-Mutuel Network" and Internet-based pari-mutuel racing activity, which are expected to be launched by the end of 2001.

Upgrade International Corp. (OTC BB: UPGD), is an emerging leader in the development and commercialization of high capacity portable data storage technology. Its patented method for using existing hard disk storage technology provides both highly durable media in a credit card format and an inexpensive read/write device that together will become the next generation in personal portable data storage.

Michael J. Porter, president of Porter, LeVay & Rose, said, "We welcome these exciting growth companies to our growing client roster. They are representative of the undervalued companies and cutting-edge businesses that can benefit from our 30 years of successful experience in the financial community and our proven ability to educate and inform a wide audience through our extensive contacts in the national and local news media."