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Mt. Diablo Unified School District Board of Education Votes to

Appoint Paul Strange as a District Trustee

MARCH 23, 2006

CONCORD, CALIFORNIA – The Mt. Diablo Unified School District Board of Education has unanimously voted to provisionally appoint Paul Strange, founder of The Strange Law Firm, PC, as a district trustee. Mr. Strange’s appointment will fill a vacancy on the Board caused by the loss of E. William Leal, who passed away on January 29, 2006.

Mt. Diablo is one of the largest school districts in the state of California, with over 56 school sites and a budget of approximately $250,000,000. Mt. Diablo has over 35,000 K-12 students, over 20,000 adult education students, and over 3,500 employees. The district covers 150 square miles, including the cities of Concord, Pleasant Hill, Clayton, portions of Walnut Creek and Martinez, and unincorporated areas, including Lafayette, Pacheco, and Bay Point.

Mr. Strange will be sworn in at the March 28, 2006 Board meeting and will be running for election to a four-year term in November 2006. Robin Strange, Paul’s wife, is an active member of the local PTA and volunteers in their children’s classrooms.

Mr. Strange has volunteered with Olympic High School and is the President of the Mt. Diablo Alternative Education Foundation. In his legal career, he has litigated multi-million dollar matters involving: condemnation; real estate disputes; securities class actions; environmental litigation; wrongful termination; representation of AT&T (formerly SBC) with regard to administrative and legal matters before the California Public Utilities Commission; breach of fiduciary duties in a high-tech start-up company; and franchise litigation. Mr. Strange has also served as outside counsel for Mt. Diablo Unified School District.

Mr. Strange has litigated multi-million dollar matters involving: condemnation; real estate disputes; securities class actions; environmental litigation; wrongful termination; representation of corporate entities with regard to administrative and legal matters before the California Public Utilities Commission; breach of fiduciary duties in a high-tech start-up company; and franchise litigation. He also provides litigation services and advice and counsel to public entity clients.

The Strange Law Firm, PC

Provides Big Defense for SBC Communications

OCTOBER 8, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO - In Re New Regulatory Framework for Pacific Bell (SBC)

For the past two years, The Strange Law Firm, PC has been lead outside counsel for SBC in defending a regulatory accounting audit performed by the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC"). Paul Strange led the firm’s legal team that successfully protected SBC against over $1 billion in potential liability. The Strange Law Firm worked closely with SBC’s in-house counsel and regulatory accounting experts and with a team of experts from Deloitte & Touche. The substantial record created through the combined efforts of these groups provided the basis for the CPUC’s conclusion that although there were some accounting errors, they did not cumulatively raise SBC’s earnings to a level that would require customer refunds under the CPUC's past regulatory earnings sharing mechanism. On October 1, 2004, the CPUC adopted its final decision in the second of two phases of the proceeding related to the audit of SBC California.

The audit involved allegations of some $2 billion in adjustments and was performed over a period of 22 months. The litigation of the disputed audit adjustments took over two and a half years from the initiation of the proceeding to the issuance of the final decision. The hearings were co-tried with Michael T. Thorsnes of Thorsnes, Bartolotta & McGuire in June and August of 2002. The Strange Law Firm remains lead outside counsel for SBC in several matters including an upcoming phase to determine prospective CPUC policy regarding SBC’s regulatory framework in California.

The firm’s legal team also included Erinn R.W. Putzi, Esq., James B. Drimmer, Esq. and paralegals Erik Thorsnes and Benjamin Lang.