AT&T: Wins Networking Contract With Michael Best & Friedrich

Voice Services Pact Extends Relationship With Leading Midwest Law Firm

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 27 -AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, one of the Midwest’s oldest and largest law firms, has signed a one-year networking contract with AT&T. The contract renews and expands a long-standing relationship between the two companies. Specific terms were not disclosed.

Michael Best & Friedrich is a broad-based business law firm with 250 attorneys handling business legal matters for all size and types of clients, which range from one-person startup ventures to Fortune 500 companies.

Under the contract, AT&T will provide local, long distance, and private line services that integrate six Michael Best & Friedrich locations in Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, and Manitowoc, Wis.; Chicago, Ill., and Lehigh Valley, Pa.

AT&T will consolidate the firm’s voice services by using its industry- leading AT&T Business Network (ABN), an integrated offer that unifies multiple communications needs into a single contract with a single bill and provides discounts across all services. A significant advantage of ABN is its eServicing capabilities, which are provided by the award-winning AT&T BusinessDirect(R) customer portal. Using AT&T BusinessDirect, authorized employees can increase the firm’s internal business efficiencies by using a secure online portal to manage and monitor its network, create and track trouble tickets, manage account structures, pay their bills and implement network service orders.

“As a law firm serving thousands of clients all around world, we share highly sensitive and proprietary information on a daily basis,” said David A. Krutz, chair of the Management Committee. “AT&T’s reliable and secure networking services enable us to provide superior levels of service that our clients have come to expect. In addition, by consolidating our services, we save money.”

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About Michael Best

Founded in 1848, Michael Best has earned its reputation as a leading Midwestern law firm. The firm has more than 250 attorneys in six office locations, including Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha and Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The firm provides a full range of legal services to clients on a local, regional, national and global basis. The firm’s main areas of practice are intellectual property and intellectual property litigation; corporate, health care, labor and employment, land and resources (environmental and real estate), litigation, tax, and wealth planning.

Michael Best is the exclusive Wisconsin member of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms. Visit http://www.lexmundi.com/ for more information. The firm is also a member of the China Alliance. The China Alliance is a unique arrangement established by four leading independent law firms in response to the increasing importance of China to the global marketplace and to North American businesses. Visit http://www.china-alliance.com/ for more information.

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