Crompton corporation signs agreement with LRN for legal and ethics education and training of employees

LOS ANGELES, CA, August 28, 2003 -- LRN® the leading provider of legal, compliance and ethics education services, today announced that it has signed a three-year deal with the Crompton Corporation (NYSE:CK), a global producer and marketer of polymer products and specialty chemicals, to provide its employees with online training in ethics and legal compliance.

The program, offered through the LRN Legal Compliance and Ethics Center (LCEC)®, will complement existing training efforts at Crompton and help to ensure that employees remain up-to-date on legal and compliance issues that impact the chemical business. In addition, LRN is creating a customized online course for Crompton based on the company's code of conduct. This custom course will be made available in seven languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Mandarin and Portuguese.

"At Crompton we always have had a deep commitment to running our operations responsibly, legally and ethically," said, Jim Nortz, VP of Business Ethics and Compliance. "Working with LRN is a logical next step for us in this effort. Its LCEC offering will help to educate our workforce not only in the United States, but throughout the world on critical issues that drive our business. The global reach of this program will enable us to ensure that every employee, regardless of location or language, will receive the same message as employees in our home office. That's an incredibly important benefit in communicating our core values to our employees and invaluable to fostering a 'do-it-right' culture throughout the company."

"Increasingly, companies are realizing that their reputation is perhaps their most valuable asset, and they are taking the necessary steps to protect that asset," said Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN. "By adding our LCEC solution to its compliance initiative and ensuring that code of conduct training will be made available to its employees around the world, Crompton is strengthening its efforts to preserve the reputation it has worked so hard to build. This represents a tremendous opportunity to harness the power of LCEC and create common ground globally delivered in localized, easily accessible language."

With more than 100 customers, LRN is helping workers do the right thing and empowering them with knowledge to help them make better decisions and take appropriate actions.

The LRN Legal Compliance and Ethics Center is the world's leading Web-based legal, ethics and compliance education solution. Through an interactive and entertaining tutorial, online handbook and other educational tools, LCEC helps employees learn how to identify and avoid ethical and legal risks. The courses are delivered through a Web-based platform. No additional software is installed on customers' computers, which greatly reduces implementation time, maintenance costs and technology barriers. Additionally, updates and changes to the courses can be rolled out immediately to every user. LCEC also contains a disconnected learning feature, which allows employees in remote areas or those with less reliable access to the Internet to complete courses offline.