Press Release
October 24, 2001
Motient Provides Wireless Email To Dewey Ballantine LLP
500+ Lawyer Law Firm to Use Motient's New BlackBerry for Lotus Notes
Reston, VA - Motient Corporation (NASDAQ: MTNT) today announced a relationship to provide wireless email services to the law firm of Dewey Ballantine LLP. Lawyers at Dewey Ballantine will be able to access their desktop email virtually anywhere in the country using Motient's new always-on BlackBerry™ for Lotus Notes® wireless email service.
Motient owns and operates the nation's largest wireless data network and is a provider of a variety of wireless email services. Motient's BlackBerry for Lotus Notes offering provides a handheld wireless email solution for users operating on the Lotus Notes system. The service combines the power and popularity of Lotus Notes with the innovative Research In Motion (RIM) Wireless Handheld™.
"The legal community continues to be an important target for our wireless email services and a market segment where we continue to have significant success," said Mike Fabbri, vice president of sales for Motient. "Our wireless email service enables attorneys to be more productive and efficient by providing real-time communication to their office and clients."
Dewey Ballantine LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York with eight offices around the globe, is among the most highly regarded firms in the legal profession. Since its founding in 1909, it has been consistently ranked among the handful of firms that have the breadth and sophistication of practice to serve the complex and varied needs of the world's leading commercial enterprises. With offices in key financial centers around the world and a full compliment of practice areas, clients regularly turn to Dewey Ballantine LLP for creative solutions to their changing legal needs. According to Ms. Eva Steiner, Dewey's Director of Information Technology, "The attorneys at the firm find the technology extremely efficient and easy to use; it keeps them readily informed wherever they are so they can respond timely to their clients' needs."
About Dewey Ballantine LLP
Dewey Ballantine is an international law firm with over 500 attorneys located in New York, Washington, DC., Los Angeles, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Prague and Warsaw. Founded in 1909, it's tradition of excellence has made it one of the world's preeminent law firms. Dewey Ballantine LLP lawyers share an aggressive commitment to unrivaled client service, never losing sight of the need to produce high-quality legal work in a responsive, cost-effective and personalized manner. During the first half of 2000, Dewey's corporate deals, totaling over $38 billion, secured the firm's first place position in the Thomson Financial Securities Data Legal Advisor Ranking, capturing more that 40% of the market share. More recently, the Dewey Ballantine LLP completed the multi-tranche financing of Alliance Gas Pipeline, the largest project finance transaction ever consummated in North America. Dewey Ballantine LLP is committed to providing its clients innovative and imaginative solutions to the challenges presented by today's complex business and legal climate.
About Motient
Motient (www.motient.com) owns and operates an integrated terrestrial/satellite network and provides a wide range of two-way mobile and Internet communications services principally to business-to-business customers and enterprises. The company provides eLinkSM and BlackBerry by Motient two-way wireless email service to customers accessing email through corporate servers, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Mail Service Provider (MSP) accounts, and paging network suppliers. Motient serves a variety of markets including mobile professionals, telemetry, transportation, field service, and nationwide voice dispatch offering coverage to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and thousands of miles of U. S. coastal waters.
eLink is a service mark and Motient is a trademark of Motient Corporation. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of, and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited and are used by permission. "BlackBerry by Motient" - used by permission.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this news release are described in Motient Corporation's registration statement on Form S-4 (333-63826) and in Motient's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000 and its other periodic filings and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of such reports and filings are available upon request from Motient's Investor Relations Department.
