Online CLE will assist NITA in its mission to provide the best possible training in legal advocacy skills and to foster professionally responsible behavior.

SOUTH BEND, IN and SEATTLE, WA December 14, 2000 - The National Institute for Trial Advocacy ("NITA"), which is affiliated with the Notre Dame Law School, has contracted with Taecan.com, the recognized leader for Online CLE, to make certain NITA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses available over the internet. The NITA CLE content will be added to the expanding Taecan.com CLE online library and will be accessible to attorneys wherever they may be.

The first NITA courses to be posted at Taecan.com will include the highly regarded NITA "classic" "10 Commandments of Cross-Examination", and "Legal Ethics in an Unethical World". Other courses cover "The Art of Storytelling" and "Opening Statements: A Modern Approach".

NITA Selects Taecan.com

In order to help make their CLE program as widely available as possible, NITA identified Online CLE as a sensible way to offer its courses. They then interviewed and selected Taecan.com, the recognized leader for Online CLE, to work with them in this effort.

"By working with Taecan.com, NITA is providing lawyers with a convenient, cost-effective way to satisfy their CLE requirements and take our high-quality courses at the same time."

Susan Toth
Director, Electronic Business
NITA

Likewise, Taecan.com sees this project with NITA as a natural extension of its services.

"Taecan.com is extremely pleased to be working with NITA. We strongly support the NITA mission of the highest quality courses coupled with the fostering of professionally responsible behavior."

Patrick Vane
CEO of Taecan.com

About Taecan.com. Taecan is Old English for " To teach". Taecan.com is a Seattle based Internet company that offers a convenient and affordable alternative to seminar style " fixed time and place" CLE seminars. The company, founded by an attorney and educator, has rapidly aggregated the largest online library of approved CLE titles in the world by partnering with professional associations and bar organizations to deploy their content over the Internet. Taecan.com has similar contracts with numerous other organizations including the State Bar of California, the Florida Bar, the New York City Bar, the Ohio Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association, the Alaska Bar Association, the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Houston Bar; and with numerous other CLE content providers.

About the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. NITA is a not-for-profit, continuing legal education institution, which is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame. NITA believes that all people are entitled to quality legal representation by skilled and ethical lawyers. NITA's mission is to provide the best possible training in legal advocacy skills and techniques for resolving legal disputes and to foster professionally responsible behavior emphasizing ethics, candor, civility, and judicial economy. To achieve its mission, NITA is committed to excellence in teaching methods, programs, faculty, and materials.



In addition to the courses offered for purchase, any user may take a free sample course at Taecan.com. This course is being offered to Ohio lawyers to familiarize them with Taecan.com and the Internet as a legal education delivery tool. The sample class does not allow the user to receive credit for the course, but it allows the attorney to have the Taecan.com experience. This fully-functional site enables users to review course materials, take quizzes and tests, and report CLE credit electronically, all online. While significant effort went into the implementation of this site, it is only the beginning: improvements will be added based on Taecan.com's business-plan directives and customer and investor feedback.