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Electronic Discovery Veterans Join Team CHICAGO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), announced today that Anne Kemp and Kathleen A. Skapik have joined the Electronic Discovery unit. This unit is part of the IT Risk Consulting group, a division of the company's Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting Services practice. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) "Anne's and Kathleen's deep understanding of Electronic Discovery and their experience with responding to the unique needs that arise during the E-Discovery process make them strong assets both to our team and, more importantly, to our clients," said Jerry F. Barbanel, executive vice president and co-global leader of the Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting Services practice. "We are very excited that Anne and Kathleen have joined us, and are confident that they will contribute to the success of our team." Aon Consulting's E-Discovery unit provides clients worldwide with customized solutions that include data collection, preservation, conversion, processing and hosting; digital data management; large-scale data warehousing; data mining and analytics; relationship/pattern identification and analysis; and multiple web-based tools to facilitate document review and production. The team is comprised of highly-experienced Electronic Discovery experts and consultants. Anne Kemp, who joins Aon Consulting as the co-national leader of litigation management services, is a nationally recognized expert in the litigation management arena. Kemp has more than 20 years of experience in litigation support and discovery management, and has assisted clients in developing litigation management strategies for numerous high-profile cases, including the Unabomber and the Erin Brockovich chromium 6 environmental matter. Kemp focuses her current practice on the delivery of strategic advice to corporations and law firms in the areas of risk management, litigation preparedness, compliance and retention systems, and Electronic Discovery. Kathleen Skapik, a vice president in Aon Consulting's Electronic Discovery unit, has more than 28 years of experience in computerized litigation support. Skapik joins Aon Consulting from Compulit, a Pitney Bowes Company. While at Compulit, Skapik was responsible for expanding the company's Electronic Discovery, web hosting consulting and litigation support services. She has worked closely with many of the top 250 law firms and Fortune 500 companies to devise organization and management strategies of electronic and paper files for litigation preparedness and evidentiary materials. Skapik has extensive experience working with legal teams to define cost-effective technology and workflow solutions for proactive and immediate needs in Electronic Discovery, web hosting and traditional litigation support, such as imaging, OCR and coding. Kemp is based in San Francisco and Skapik is based in Chicago. For more information, contact: Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, 312-381-4786, . About Aon Aon Corporation ( http://www.aon.com/ ) is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There are 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon Consulting Worldwide ( http://www.aon.com/hcc ) is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2005 revenues of $1.255 billion and 6,800 professionals in 117 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting is reshaping the workplace of the future through benefits, talent management and rewards strategies and solutions. In August 2006, Aon Consulting was named the best employee benefit consulting firm by the readers of Business Insurance magazine. About the Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting Services Practice Aon Consulting's Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting Services practice provides a full line of consulting services including: white-collar and financial statement investigations; securities litigation; financial due diligence; damage calculations; financial valuation services; expert testimony; computer forensics; and other related specialties. This press release contains certain statements related to future results, or states our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical or anticipated results depending on a variety of factors. Potential factors that could impact results include: general economic conditions in different countries in which we do business around the world, changes in global equity and fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could influence revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could affect our ability to borrow funds, funding of our various pension plans, changes in the competitive environment, our ability to implement restructuring initiatives and other initiatives intended to yield cost savings, our ability to execute the stock repurchase program, our ability to execute the planned sale of the Aon Warranty Group, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in revenues and earnings due to the elimination of contingent commissions, other uncertainties surrounding a new compensation model, the impact of investigations brought by state attorneys general, state insurance regulators, federal prosecutors, and federal regulators, the impact of class actions and individual lawsuits including client class actions, securities class actions, derivative actions, and ERISA class actions, the cost of resolution of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies from actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Joe Micucci of Aon Consulting, +1-312-381-4786, Web site: http://www.aon.com/ http://www.aon.com/hcc

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