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Hayward D. Fisk, Chairman
Atlantic Legal Foundation

Mr. Fisk has been corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Computer Sciences Corporation since February 6, 1989. He joined Atlantic Legal's Legal Advisory Council in 1980 and has been an Atlantic Legal Director since 1989 and Chairman since 1997. He previously was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Sprint Corporation, where he held various legal and executive positions since 1968.

He has served on the boards of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce; the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce (President); Newville Builders Supply & Manufacturing, Inc.; Dickinson College and the Hospital (Vice Chairman) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and the United States Chamber of Commerce Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee.

Mr. Fisk has also served on advisory councils to the Federal Communications Commission and the editorial board of Prentice Hall's Telematics and currently serves on the board of The Computer Lawyer. He was President of the Southern California Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association in 1999 and continues to serve on its Board of Directors, as well as the Board of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Corporate Secretaries' Association.

He is a long-time member of the Legal Advisory Council of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. He served on Vice President Quayle's/Attorney General Barr's Steering Committee for Civil Justice Reform. Mr. Fisk has written and spoken extensively on a variety of subjects.

Stephen J. Harmelin is an attorney with 35 years of experience in corporate law and financial transactions who also represents governmental and non-profit entities. He is the Managing Partner of Dilworth Paxson LLP, a 125-attorney regional law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Newtown Square in Pennsylvania; Cherry Hill and Turnersville, New Jersey; Wilmington, Delaware; and Washington, D.C.

He has consistently been chosen by a survey of his fellow lawyers to be listed in the publication, The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Harmelin lectures on law firm management, corporate reorganizations and other financial transactions. For three years he served as Chairman of the Board of a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, Publicker Industries, Inc. In addition, he serves on the Board of numerous privately-held companies, including one year in which he served as an executive and as Chairman of Confab, Inc., one of the Philadelphia area's largest employers.

He served from 1990 to 2002 by appointment of the Governor as a Commissioner on the Board of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. This Authority developed and operates the $500 million Convention Center opened in Philadelphia in 1993. He also served in 1992 by unanimous vote of the Pennsylvania Democratic and Republican Senate and House leadership as General Counsel to the Legislative Reapportionment Commission. This Commission had the responsibility for redistricting the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania following the 1990 Census. He was recently appointed in 2001 to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Task Force on the selection of lead counsel in class action lawsuits.

Mr. Harmelin is engaged in various other civic and charitable activities. He is Founder of the Philadelphia Constitution Foundation which owned of the world's most extensive libraries on international Constitutions. Projects of the Foundation included supporting the exhibition of an original Magna Carta in Philadelphia as well as providing guidance to the Constitutional Commission of the Russian Republic. He serves on the Board of the Barnes Foundation which houses the most important collection of French Impressionist Paintings outside of France. Mr. Harmelin is on the Board of the Atlantic Legal Foundation and the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau. He is General Counsel to the National Constitution Center, a $200 million project scheduled to open in Independence National Historical Park on July 4, 2003. Mr. Harmelin is Chairman of the Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia First Foundation.

Mr. Harmelin is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and the Harvard Law School (1963). Following graduation and active duty in the United States Coast Guard, Mr. Harmelin served as a White House aide in the administration of President Lyndon B., Johnson. The initiation and development of the highly regarded White House Fellows Program was an area of his responsibility. In 1970 Mr. Harmelin served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia. He presently is a Treasurer of the Committee that re-elected in 1998 the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Hon. Arlen Specter.

He is married to Julia and has two daughters, Alison and Melina. He was born in Philadelphia on May 7, 1939.

Mr. Harmelin is a biographee in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry.

Charles R. Work is a partner in the Regulation & Government Affairs Department, resident in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington, D.C. office. He is the former head of the firm's Litigation Department, the former head of the firm's Regulation and Government Affairs Department, and was the Partner-In-Charge of the Washington, D.C. office from 1983 - 1997. He is the General Counsel, East Coast, of the AeA, formerly known as the American Electronics Association. He is also the General Counsel of the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

Mr. Work has been involved in a number of leading cases. Recently, he was lead trial counsel in United States of America v. Quorum, a significant health care fraud case in the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida. He was also co-lead counsel on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Corporation in the case of United States of America v. Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrup Grumman Corporation, in which the United States sued to enjoin the merger of the two companies. He was lead counsel in the case of Aristotle Publishing, Inc. v. CDB Infotech, a case involving data rights, which received national attention in the media. He was co-lead counsel in the case of Inslaw, Inc., et al. v. The United States, a case involving intellectual property rights to computer software. He also was appointed by the United States District Court as guardian ad litem of the Vietnamese orphans who survived a plane crash in Saigon in 1975. Mr. Work has handled civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts as well as matters before various federal agencies, including the International Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Independent Counsel. Mr. Work also has been involved in arbitration both as counsel and as an arbitrator.

Mr. Work is a former president of the D.C. Bar, a former deputy administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistant Administration (nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate) and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. In the U.S. Attorney's office, where he served for seven years, he concluded his career as Chief of the Superior Court Division, the division responsible for prosecuting all local crime in the District of Columbia. In 1978, he received the Rockefeller Public Service Award for Administering Justice and Reducing Crime. Mr. Work served as the President's appointee to the D.C. Commission on Judicial Tenure and Disabilities, the body that reappoints and disciplines the judges of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1999. Mr. Work is listed in all editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Work earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962. He received his J.D. in 1965 from the University of Chicago Law School and his L.L.M. in trial advocacy in 1966 from Georgetown University Law Center.

Richard Wilson is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University and immediate past Director of Harvard's Regional Center for Global Environmental Change.

He is an Affiliate of the Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Professor Wilson is a past Chairman of the Department of Physics at Harvard University and a past Chairman and currently a member of the Cyclotron Operating Committee. He is a founder of the Society for Risk Analysis.

Dr. Wilson is and has been a consultant to the United States government and the governments of numerous foreign countries on matters of nuclear safety, toxicology, epidemiology, public health and safety and risk assessment. He is the author of many articles on high energy physics, environmental pollution and risk analysis. Dr. Wilson has been a member of the Atlantic Legal Advisory Council since 1990.

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