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Legal Club of America Corp. and NetZero Enter into Distribution Agreement Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 21, 1999 Legal Club of America Corp., (OTCBB: LEGL) announced that it has entered into an agreement with NetZero, the nation's largest provider of unlimited free Internet access based on number of registered users, whereby Legal Club will distribute NetZero software for free Internet access, through its diversified marketing channels. In addition, Legal Club will be included in ClubZero, a new personalized home page soon to be launched by NetZero. Through the Company's Professional Services Club displayed on ClubZero, NetZero subscribers will have one-click access to Legal Club of America's online legal community with over 3,000 links of interest for the legal consumer and tools and services for the legal professional. The agreement will enable Legal Club to capitalize on potential new sources of membership, advertising and e-commerce revenue. Legal Club also believes that the increase in traffic through the Legal Channel will aid in the closure of several business-to-business relationships designed to cross-market products and services. Legal Club will include the NetZero free Internet access service as part of the marketing presentations of its legal plans to over 16 million individuals, small business owners and insurance agents in the year 2000. The Company will market NetZero's services through Legal Club's distribution channels, which include a worksite marketing capability, a network of over 17,000 agents, insurance company marketing partners and a nationally aired infomercial. The NetZero free Internet access software will also be included as part of Legal Club's membership fulfillment and available as a download off the Legalclub.com Web site. "This arrangement with NetZero allows Legal Club to grow its core business while adding revenue sharing from the marketing of other products and services," said Brett Merl, Legal Club's chief executive officer. "Our ability to deliver free Internet access to all of Legal Club's existing and future members should accelerate the Legal Club's acquisition of new Legal Plan members and also help us retain existing members." "Legal Club of America's approach to marketing the NetZero service represents a unique methodology for bringing on additional subscribers at no cost," said Mark R. Goldston, chairman and chief executive officer of NetZero. "In addition, we are pleased to offer NetZero subscribers easy online access to a vast array of legal services." Legal Club of America Corporation operates a national legal referral service, which provides access to a network of approximately 8,000 attorneys, located in all 50 states, who provide free and deeply discounted legal services to individuals and small business owners. The Company markets its products through a combination of work site enrollments, infomercials, direct marketing and Internet marketing through its web site, www.legalclub.com. NANA™, Legal Club's Internet-driven subsidiary, services and hosts a nationwide directory of individual attorney Web pages and can be found within the "Attorney Village" of the Company's Web site. NANA provides its listed members valuable exposure to the estimated half million people that search the Internet each month looking for the services of an attorney. The NANA Directory incorporates the latest Microsoft® Internet technology and offers over 3,000 links to products, services and reference tools for attorneys who subscribe for the service. Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are those introduced with phrases such as "plans to", "will", "is expected to" and the like. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding current or future financial performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations, management's assessment of market factors, and statements regarding the Company's strategy and plans, constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of the Company's future performance and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause that the Company's actual results in the future materially to differ from the forward-looking statements.
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