FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             2002-50


                       MEDIA ADVISORY

 SEC Announces Additional Panelist for Roundtable Discussion
                         in Chicago
                              
     Washington, D.C., April 3, 2002—The Securities and
Exchange Commission today announced the addition of Bank One
Chairman and CEO James Dimon as a panelist for the SEC’s
April 4 roundtable discussion of financial disclosure and
auditor oversight in Chicago, Ill.
     
     Panel One:  Improving Financial Disclosure  
                 (10:00 a.m. - noon, Central Time)

     Moderator:  John Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Ariel
                 Capital Management
     Panelists:  James Dimon, Chairman and CEO, Bank One
                 Robert Litan, Economic Studies Director,
                      Brookings Institution
                 John Markese, President, American Association
                      of Individual Investors
                 John Rekenthaler, Research Director,
                      Morningstar
                 Maryann Waryjas, Katten Muchin Zavis
                 John Zielinski, Senior V.P., Northern Trust


     Panel Two:  Assuring Adequate Oversight of Auditing
                 (1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Central Time)

     Moderator:  J. Carter Beese Jr., President, Riggs Capital
                      Partners
     Panelists:  Ken Bertsch, Director, Corporate
                      Governance, TIAA-CREF
                 David Costello, President and CEO, National
                 Association of State Boards of Accountancy
                 Professor Dan Fischel, University of Chicago
                      Law School
                 Barbara H. Franklin, President and CEO,
                 Barbara Franklin Enterprises
                 Edward Nusbaum, CEO, Grant Thornton

     The roundtable discussion will take place at the SEC’s
Midwest Regional Office, 9th floor, 175 W. Jackson Blvd.,
Chicago.  The SEC will provide an audio Webcast (live and
archived) of both the morning and afternoon sessions on its
Web site at www.sec.gov/news/extra/marchroundcast.htm. A
complete transcript will be available on the SEC Web site at
a later date.
     
     
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