Online delivery of required training to benefit Orange County lawyers as CLE deadlines approach.

IRVINE, CA AND SEATTLE, WA December 19, 2000 - Orange County lawyers now have a new option to help them meet their Continuing Legal Education ("CLE") requirements. The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) has selected Taecan.com, the recognized leader for Online CLE, to be its partner in offering OCBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses over the internet. In addition, Taecan.com has agreed that the OCBA will be its exclusive Orange County-based Content Partner.

The OCBA CLE content will be added to the expanding Taecan.com CLE online library and will be accessible to attorneys wherever they may be around the globe. This partnership will greatly assist Orange County attorneys in meeting their CLE deadlines, some as early as the end of January, 2001.

" By partnering with Taecan.com, the Orange County Bar Association is providing its member lawyers with a convenient, cost-effective way to satisfy their CLE requirements and meet their deadlines."

Patrick Vane
CEO of Taecan.com

Traditional options for CLE credit-live seminars--often require money to be spent on travel, hotel and class registration, while attorney hourly revenue is often lost because lawyers leave their practices to attend live programs. Many litigators are forced to skip a CLE class they have signed up and paid for simply because there schedule changes unpredictably. By providing lawyers a tool to complete all or part of their CLE requirements over the internet, whether at home or in the office, costs are reduced by having the internet become the "classroom". Law firms using the internet for CLE stand to save $ 1,200 per lawyer per year over traditional classroom CLE credits.

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 Bar Associations to deploy their content over the Internet. Taecan.com has similar contracts with numerous other Bar organizations including the Florida Bar, the New York City Bar, the Ohio Bar, the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Houston Bar; and with numerous other CLE content providers

About the Orange County (Calif.) Bar Association. Since its founding in 1901, the Orange County Bar Association has initiated numerous programs, services and opportunities for its members, the legal profession, the judiciary and the community. Currently, OCBA is one of the largest voluntary bar associations in California, with over 6600 members. The association also has a history of developing high quality, innovative CLE for its members and the attorney population at large.



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.