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EEOC Information and Updates

Several hundred agents, members of the proposed class and collective actions, filed charges with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") during the year 2000 alleging (1) that Allstate engaged in illegal age discrimination against them when it purported to terminate their employment contracts and (2) the Release constitutes unlawful retaliation in violation of various federal laws. On August 1, 2002, the EEOC began mailing letters giving notice of its decision to administratively dismiss the age discrimination charges. In the letters, the EEOC makes clear that its decision to administratively dismiss the charges does not reflect any decision directed to the merits of those charges.

The receipt of the EEOC's letter apparently has caused many filers to fear that they might be excluded from the proposed class and collective action. This type of fear may cause filers to take actions inconsistent with their interests. Before taking any action in response to receipt of the EEOC's letter, filers should obtain legal advice. We are willing to provide advice.

If you are an agent whose employment contract was terminated in the Mass Termination Program and would like to discuss legal representation, or if you simply have a question, please contact us, preferably initially by email. Feel free to contact us whether or not you were a filer with the EEOC. When you contact us, please also inform us whether you wish to receive a blank copy of our retainer agreement. The contact may be directed to any of the legal assistants working on this case:

Jacqueline Olson
Sprenger & Lang
1614 Twentieth Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 265-8010
jolson@sprengerlang.com

Vivian Lam
Sprenger & Lang
1614 Twentieth Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 265-8010
vlam@sprengerlang.com

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20004
info@allstatecase.com

In response to any inquiries, we will send you a letter, which unlike this webpage can be protected by attorney-client privilege. The letter will contain information that we are unwilling to place on the webpage. We also will send you a form with information that we ask that you complete and return to us, and, if you request, a blank retainer agreement.

The letter hopefully will answer your questions. If it does not, please contact us again and a legal assistant or a lawyer will attempt to answer your questions.

To the extent allowed by law, we will keep the fact that you contacted us confidential. However, Allstate may seek the names of anybody who contacts us, and we cannot guarantee that the judge will not compel us to produce it.

Regardless whether Allstate finds out that you contacted us, any retaliation by Allstate or its affiliates against you for exercising your legal rights to contact us, and if you choose, for participating in the suit, providing us with information, or otherwise assisting us provides a separate basis for bringing a suit. Please report any act that you consider retaliatory to us immediately. Also, if Allstate learns that you have contacted us or are participating in this suit in some fashion, its lawyers may approach you to answer questions. You are under no obligation to answer any questions from Allstate about anything to do with this suit, or to provide Allstate with a copy of any information that you provide to us.

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