Press Release
July 25, 2000
Greenebaum Doll & McDonald goes 24/7/365 with BlackBerry™ Wireless Email Solution
Louisville, KY - The law firm of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC announced that it is equipping all of its 170 lawyers and its senior administrative staff in the firm's six offices with the BlackBerry™ wireless email solution from Research In Motion Limited (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSE: RIM). The BlackBerry will provide all the firm's attorneys with continuous, real-time, secure, mobile access to the firm's email, contacts, calendars and task lists, making professionals and staff accessible to clients and others 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
"BlackBerry's wireless email will permit Greenebaum Doll & McDonald to enhance our already high standards of client service. We are the first firm in our region to adopt and implement an ‘Always On, Always Connected™' solution for email availability" said Rick Anderson, Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer. "Equipping all our professionals and senior staff with the BlackBerry makes good business sense for us and our clients. Our practice moves at ever-increasing speeds because our clients' businesses are doing the same. BlackBerry wireless email will keep our lawyers in constant communication with our clients, the firm and other professionals. It will provide clients with one more avenue for communicating with us any time they choose to do so, wherever we are. Our BlackBerry wireless email, coupled with portable phones and voice mail put us in constant touch with our clients, no matter where we are. We had four requirements for a device: it had to be very small, simple to operate, practical, and economical. The Blackberry, about the size of a credit card, fills the bill beautifully. If I am traveling, I can review and respond to email, just as if I were in my office. The device puts us in constant, real-time communication with our clients and others, even when we are at a remote location. Clients demand - really take for granted - this type of access today, and we are pleased to be the first in our region to make the investment to facilitate that access.
Research In Motion's BlackBerry solution includes a powerful wireless handheld with integrated email/organizer software, PC docking cradle, specialized desktop and server software, single mailbox integration with Microsoft Exchange® and flat-rate nationwide airtime. It features end-to-end security whereby all firm email remains encrypted at all points between the desktop PC and the BlackBerry Handheld, meeting standard corporate security guidelines. The "push model" of email delivery that BlackBerry provides does not require the user to dial-in or initiate the connection, so users receive notification as a new email arrives and can respond immediately.
About Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC is a full service regional business law firm of 200 professionals, with offices in Louisville, Lexington, Covington and Frankfort, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Nashville, Tennessee, and is a full service business law firm practicing in the following areas: corporate and commercial, securities, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and dispute resolution, labor and employment, health care, insurance, environmental, real estate and finance, estates and trusts, tax and employee benefits.
The firm has been engaged in the practice of law for almost 50 years and is routinely recognized for its devotion to client service. In the Clients' Choice list published by The American Lawyer, general counsel nationwide were asked to list their top three law firms in 11 practice areas based on service, quality of work and value. The firm excelled in seven of those areas: tax, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, employment, environmental, insurance and litigation. Only 32 other firms nationwide achieved such recognition.
More recently, Greenebaum was included in the National Law Journal's annual "Who Represents Corporate America" survey, published in the November 15, 1999 issue. The survey was based on responses from the 250 largest American corporations (as ranked by Fortune) and identified up to five "most used" law firms for each company. Greenebaum Doll & McDonald is the only law firm in its region - southern Ohio to central Tennessee - to be listed twice.
For more information about Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, please visit the firm's web site at http://www.gdm.com/.
About Research In Motion
Research In Motion Limited is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the mobile communications market. Through development and integration of hardware, software and services, RIM provides solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers in North America and around the world to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products includes the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, the BlackBerry™ wireless email solution, wireless personal computer card adapters, embedded radio-modems and software development tools. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE: RIM). For more information, visit: Investors may contact investor_relations@rim.net. Customers may contact info@rim.net.
Research In Motion, RIM, RIM Wireless Handheld, Blackberry and ‘Always On, Always Connected' are trademarks or registered trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
