Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. Announces Board Members

    ADA, Okla., May 16 /CNW/ -- Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (NYSE: PPD),
today announced that Duke R. Ligon was elected to our Board of Directors at
today's annual shareholders' meeting.  Mr. Ligon was also appointed by the
Board to the Nominating and Compensation Committees. Shareholders also
re-elected Messrs. Grunebaum and Aldridge to the Board of Directors and they
will continue their existing committee assignments.
    Ligon recently retired as senior vice president and general counsel for
Devon Energy Corporation, brings more than 35 years of legal expertise in
corporate securities, litigation, governmental affairs and mergers and
acquisitions and is currently serving as executive director of the Love's
Entrepreneurial Center at Oklahoma City University as well as strategic
advisor to the Oklahoma based Love's Travel Stores.  Prior to joining Devon in
1997, he practiced law for 12 years and last served as a partner at the law
firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in New York City.  In addition, he was senior
vice president and managing director for investment banking at Bankers Trust
Co. in New York City for 10 years.  Ligon received an undergraduate degree in
chemistry from Westminster College and a law degree from the University of
Texas School of Law.
    Mr. Grunebaum, currently an independent investment banker and corporate
consultant, was the Managing Director of Fortrend International, an investment
firm headquartered in New York, New York, a position he held from 1989 until
the end of 2003.  Mr. Grunebaum also serves as a director of StoneMor GP, LLC
the general partner of StoneMor Partners LP and Lucas Energy, Inc.  Mr.
Aldridge retired as a professor from Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College in
Miami, Oklahoma in 2002 where he had been an instructor since 1982 and has
been and remains an independent insurance agent.  He has served as a director
of our wholly-owned subsidiary, Pre-Paid Legal Casualty, Inc. since 1991.

    About Us

    We believe our products are one of a kind, life events legal service
plans.  Our plans provide for legal service benefits provided through a
network of more than 50 independent law firms across the U.S. and Canada, and
include unlimited attorney consultation, will preparation, traffic violation
defense, automobile-related criminal charges defense, letter writing, document
preparation and review and a general trial defense benefit.  We have an
identity theft restoration product we think is also one of a kind due to the
combination of our identity theft restoration partner and our provider law
firms.  More information about us and our products can be found at our
homepage at http://www.prepaidlegal.com.

For further information: Steve Williamson of Pre-Paid Legal Services, 
Inc., +1-580-436-1234 Web Site: http://www.prepaidlegal.com