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Shareholder.com Hosts Sarbanes-Oxley Webcast: ``Blowing the Whistle on Risk: a legal perspective on SOX 301''.


Business Editors

MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004

Distinguished panel of legal experts to discuss

Whistleblower Hotline's impact on

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Shareholder.com, a leader in shareholder communications, will host a live webcast event: Blowing the Whistle on Risk: a legal perspective on SOX 301 on Wednesday April 28, 2004 at 1:00PM EST. Join Shareholder.com and the panel of experts as they discuss the benefits of an Integrated Whistleblower Hotline and the risk associated with non-compliance.

Registration for the free webcast event is now open. Corporate secretaries, corporate counsel, attorneys specializing in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Investor relations Investor relations

The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
 officers and CFOs will all benefit from attending.

Click below or paste this URL URL
 in full Uniform Resource Locator

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 to schedule the event automatically into your Outlook calendar. Windows XP users select open when prompted www.shareholder.com/home/AddtoOutlook

Click below or paste this URL to go to the registration page www.shareholder.com/home/Company/mediaRegister.cfm?mediaID=11430

The one-hour webcast discussion, moderated by Stephen Schultz, Director of Governance Programs at Shareholder.com, features a distinguished panel of legal experts:

-- Donn C. Meindertsma of Winston & Strawn, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol  is partner in the

firm's Washington, D.C. office, where he concentrates his

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federal and local agencies.

-- Jonathan A. Shapiro of Hale and Dorr, LLP is a senior partner

in Hale and Dorr's Litigation Department, and a member of the

firm's Corporate and Securities Litigation Group and

Government Investigations and Litigation Group.

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Jacobson LLP is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's

Washington, DC office. She joined the firm in 1993 and became

a partner in 1998. Ms. Tsaganos represents public and private

companies in connection with a broad range of corporate

transactions, including public offerings, mergers and

acquisitions and private offering and equity transactions.

This webcast is the third in a series of open forums sponsored by Shareholder.com focused on new federal legislation within Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring public companies to facilitate the receipt and resolution of accounting and auditing irregularities at their companies. Webcast events are available for replay at www.shareholder.com.

Registration

All interested individuals are invited to attend this free webcast which will include an online Q&A session for all attendees. To register, visit www.shareholder.com.

About Shareholder.com

Shareholder.com has 11 years of experience facilitating communications between listed companies, their shareholders and the investment community. Shareholder.com provides a comprehensive suite of investor relations services, including creating and managing customized investor relations websites, audio/video webcasts, conference call services, institutional targeting, synchronous news dissemination via email/fax/website and intranet, and global fulfillment services. Over 750 companies around the world, including ABN AMRO, Coca-Cola Enterprises, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Hudson's Bay Co., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game)
KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines)
KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) 
, Legal & General, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Prudential Financial and Yahoo! rely on Shareholder.com. www.shareholder.com.
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