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FreeAdvice.com is a unit of Advice Company (formerly Advice and Counsel Incorporated) founded in 1991, and an Internet leader since 1995.

The Company�s experienced, seasoned and technologically proficient Management Team is headed by the Company�s Founder & CEO, Gerry Goldsholle. He is a graduate of William & Mary, Columbia Law School and Stanford Business School�s Executive Program. He formerly was Chief Brokerage Executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the President & CEO of MetLife Marketing Corporation. He served for many years as the chair of committees of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the New York City Bar Association.

Among the Company�s ventures are

AttorneyPages� at http://AttorneyPages.com, an easy to use consumer oriented national directory of qualified attorneys, lawyers and law firms that provides marketing and lead generation services for attorneys and law firms.
Expert Pages�, at http://ExpertPages.com, the original and leading Internet directory of expert witnesses and consultants, which has been repeatedly recognized as "best in class� by other leading legal publishers.
FreeAdvice�, at http://www.FreeAdvice.com/, the most visited legal and insurance information and advice website for consumers. With extensive information covering over 130 legal subjects and every type of insurance, it has been winning acclaim from national media since 1996.
Advice & Counsel Newsletter�, a financial security and legally oriented print newsletter that has been distributed each month for over 10 years to tens of thousands of clients of such major national and international insurance companies as Allianz, Chase, Fortis, ING Modern Woodmen, Unicare / Wellpoint, and Zurich Kemper Life.

For the first 12 years of its existence, the Company also was a principal of DoItYourself.com� at http://DoItYourself.com, the leading independent home improvement, maintenance and repair site. That site was purchased by Internet Brands Inc. in 2007.

Headquartered just 3 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, California, with offices on San Francisco Bay, the Company or its affiliates maintain offices or staff in or near Chicago, IL., Jackson, MS., New York, NY., and Washington, DC.

The easy-to-understand legal content on FreeAdvice.com has been prepared and is updated by nationally renown specialists at dozens of leading American law firms, and by other capable attorneys and legal professionals on the Company's highly qualified legal and editorial staff. The insurance content has been prepared by leading insurance experts. We welcome suggestions for new topics, and welcome submission of original high quality legal, insurance and investment content for publication on our site.

The FreeAdvice Forums, at http://forum.FreeAdvice.com are the most visited consumer legal forums, where consumers can pose questions and receive answers and suggestions from other consumers, experts and attorneys in 50 topics.

FreeAdvice.com seeks to provide the most useful, easy-to-understand, comprehensive and balanced legal information and insurance help to consumers and small businesses, and to help people and businesses find answers to their legal and insurance questions and solutions to their legal and insurance problems.

Now online for over 12 years, FreeAdvice.com is honored to have been selected as the "most extremely useful" legal website for consumers in a USA Today - Intelli-Quest Poll, to have been named by Forbes as a "Best of the Web", by PC World as one of the Best 125 Free Sites on the entire Web, as one of the 100 featured sites in PC Magazine�s Best 1000 websites, as the legal site of the year by Access Magazine, and to have repeatedly received accolades and top recognition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post�s reviews of legal websites.

FreeAdvice.com also has benefited from advice from members of its distinguished former Editorial Advisory Board comprised of distinguished attorneys, including law school deans and law professors, consumer advocates, former senior Government officials, senior partners at several of America's leading law firms and senior counsel in leading corporate law departments.

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