Please be advised that our office has been retained by Gillespie Design Group to collect from you the balance of $2, 046.30 that you owe to Gillespie Design Group pursuant to contracts entered into for your collection services for various accounts of Gillespie Design Group. We have enclosed copies of these contracts for your review. As you are likely aware, our client agreed to a contingency fee of twenty percent (20%) for any amounts collected for each account placed with your firm. Over the course of your relationship with our client, you firm has taken fees in excess of the agreed upon twenty percent and has also misrepresented the amounts it has collected in various fee reports. Our client is owed $2, 006.50 as an outstanding remittance from June, 2008, as well as an additional $39.80 on the Homer Chapa account, which represents an excess fee held by your firm. Various partners and associates in your firm have promised over the past eight months to resolve this issue and even that "the check is in the mail." Needless to say, the issue has not been resolved. If you wish to resolve this matter without further legal action, you must, within ten (10) days of the date of this letter, either pay in full the balance that you owe to Gillespie Design Group or call our office at (815) 459-8800 to make payment arrangements. If you do neither of these things, we will be entitled to pursue further legal action against you for the collection of this debt once ten (10) days has passed. Federal law gives you thirty (30) days after you receive this letter to dispute the validity of the debt or any part of it. If you do not dispute the debt within that period, we will assume that the debt is valid. If you do dispute the debt by notifying us in writing to that effect, we will, as required by the law, obtain and mail to you proof of the debt, and if, within that same period, you request in writing the name and address of your original creditor, if the original creditor is different from the current creditor (Gillespie Design Group), we will furnish you with that information also. Mr. Cory Hicks March 4, 2009 Page 2 of 2 The purpose of this letter is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The law does not require us to wait until the end of the thirty (30) day period before filing suit to collect the debt in this matter from you. If, however, you request proof of the debt or the name and address of the original creditor within the thirty (30) day period that begins with your receipt of this letter, the law requires us to suspend our efforts (through litigation or otherwise) to collect the debt until we mail the requested information to you. Needless to say, it appears that some of the actions by your firm are bordering on fraud. In an effort to resolve this amicably for all parties involved, we look forward to receiving your payment of $2, 046.30. Please make your payment payable to Gillespie Design Group and deliver the same to our office within ten (10) days of the date of this letter. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.