Ms. Patricia Luscombe, Managing Director of Duff & Phelps, LLC will be leading a pre-conference workshop entitled "Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: What You Need to Know and What You Need to Do". This workshop will provide a comprehensive examination of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other governance and accounting reforms. The conference, on March 16-18, 2003, is being presented by Strategic Research Institute's Private Equity Group.

Founded in 1932, Duff & Phelps is one of the nation’s leading specialty investment banking and financial advisory firms. Highly respected for consistently delivering exceptional quality, Duff & Phelps possesses expertise in fairness opinions; middle-market mergers and acquisitions; private placements; business valuations; intangible asset valuations; and ESOP and ERISA advisory services.