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Daily Journal Corporation Provides Additional Public Access to its Recent Form 8-K

Contact: Jessica Marshall                                 (778)716-6706

LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Daily Journal Corporation is issuing this press release to provide additional public access to the Form 8-K it filed earlier this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to the incredible interest in our software accounting expressed by Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc. and its Chairman and CEO, Alexander E. Parker. Below is the text of our Form 8-K. You can also visit our website at https://ir.dailyjournal.com for copies of Mr. Parker’s correspondence.

Item 8.01 Other Events.

Two weeks ago, we received a letter from Alexander E. Parker at a firm called Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc. The letter said Daily Journal Corporation (the “Company”) should be capitalizing software development costs instead of expensing them under GAAP, and that doing so would “unlock $160+ million in incremental equity value” for shareholders. Mr. Parker then asked for a consulting engagement that would pay him $24 million worth of Company equity if the stock price increased by that amount for any reason (i.e., $.15 of every dollar), and he asked for two seats on the Company’s Board of Directors. His initial July 14 letter is attached as Exhibit 99.1, and his follow-up letter dated July 18 (demanding an emergency Board meeting) is attached as Exhibit 99.2.

According to the SEC’s website, neither Mr. Parker nor Buxton Helmsley is registered as an investment adviser with the SEC. The Buxton Helmsley website says that Mr. Parker is licensed by FINRA, but according to the FINRA website, he is not registered as a broker or investment adviser. His LinkedIn page says that Mr. Parker attended Mercy University from 2014 to 2016.

Mr. Parker seems to fancy himself a whistleblower, but the Company has been disclosing its practice of expensing software development costs and the reasons for that in its public filings for more than a decade. Nothing is hidden. The Company is well aware of the accounting rules under ASC 985-20, Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed, and those rules require a continuous facts-and-circumstances analysis. The Company believes the accounting for its eSeries® product line development efforts is, and has been, correct. Furthermore, the Company’s approach has been reviewed as part of the annual audit without issue by three different national accounting firms since those development efforts began.

Mr. Parker is right that if the Company capitalized those costs, it would boost near-term earnings and asset values by reducing the Company’s expenses and shifting them to the balance sheet. Anyone who knew our longtime Chairman, Charles T. Munger, knows what his thoughts would have been on the idea of “creating value” through accounting.

Nonetheless, the Board and its Audit Committee decided to take this opportunity to engage an independent accounting consultant to make sure the Company is accounting for software development costs correctly. And that’s when Mr. Parker’s game became clear.

On July 23, one day after being informed of the decision to engage an independent accounting firm rather than Buxton Helmsley, Mr. Parker fired back a letter saying that only Buxton Helmsley was qualified to “restore trust” while at the same time notifying us that he was reporting the Company to the Enforcement Division of the SEC. That letter is attached as Exhibit 99.3. You should read it.

We suspect Mr. Parker will learn with age and experience that few people want to work with someone who presents himself this way. Even fewer want to work with someone who reports them to the government when he doesn’t get what he wants! Also, we’ve already reached out to the SEC staff and have offered to discuss with them the Company’s software development accounting and/or Mr. Parker, should they so desire.

Finally, we are attaching an email chain with Mr. Parker as Exhibit 99.4, and Mr. Parker’s fourth letter, this one dated July 25, as Exhibit 99.5. This most recent letter is addressed to Company stockholders and calls for the immediate resignation of both the Company’s CEO and its CFO. Remember, all that’s happened here is that the Company’s Audit Committee decided to engage an independent accounting consultant instead of him! After considering Mr. Parker’s analysis, his demand for equity compensation and his threats should the Company challenge him (see page 5 of the July 23 letter in particular), we suspect Company shareholders will agree that the Audit Committee made a prescient and wise decision in not “partnering” with Mr. Parker.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

99.1 Letter from Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc., dated July 14, 2025.
99.2 Letter from Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc., dated July 18, 2025.
99.3 Letter from Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc., dated July 23, 2025.
99.4 Various correspondence Alexander E. Parker between July 14 and July 23, 2025.
99.5 Letter from Buxton Helmsley USA, Inc., dated July 25, 2025.
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