WILMINGTON, DE and NEW YORK, NY( October 13, 2022) –  Morningside and doeLEGAL, both Questel Companies, reorganize their teams to leverage unique organizational expertise for law firms and corporate clients.

Bringing together the resources and staff of a top provider in eDiscovery and a leading legal language solutions provider for translation and document review creates the most comprehensive eDiscovery offering available and produces the best buyer’s journey in the eDiscovery market.

Reorganizing Ascent eDiscovery™ services under Morningside provides unmatched value and the convenience of end-to-end eDiscovery services to an expanding global eDiscovery market. Both Morningside and doeLEGAL are well-established industry leaders in legal language solutions, innovative technology, and service expertise. The newly reorganized team will leverage Morningside’s global presence amongst the world’s largest legal departments and law firms, and doeLEGAL will lend its expertise in data hosting, processing, and technology services.

Questel extends its LegalTech success by enhancing its eDiscovery offering to legal teams seeking a more tailored buyer’s experience with one provider that can offer a complete eDiscovery solution. Applying the best resources throughout the purchasing lifecycle allows both Questel companies to increase their value with a more efficient buyer’s journey dedicated to meeting clients’ evolving needs.

Ascent eDiscovery’s Combined Capabilities:

• Document Processing & Hosting
• Early Case Assessment (ECA) & Active Learning (AL)
• Production Creation & Delivery  Hosted Document Review
• Training & Support
•  Language Translation, Transcription, & Interpretation Services
• Analytics & Reporting
• Predictable & Transparent Pricing

“Further combining our two companies’ strengths will provide the best foundation for our teams to apply their vast experience and skillsets. The goal is to provide the most benefit through the eDiscovery buyers’ path,” stated Bruce Kuennen, doeLEGAL’s president & CEO.

Ascent eDiscovery offers a genuinely comprehensive litigation solution to manage the entire process with a dedicated team of eDiscovery experts. The reorganization of resources on Ascent eDiscovery gives clients a more streamlined process for purchasing the best solution to meet their evolving eDiscovery needs.

“Together, Morningside and doeLEGAL’s combined expertise continues to advance our legal technology eDiscovery offerings, and this reorganization represents the perfect evolution of our strengths. Delivering expertise in a combination of technology, language solutions, and eDiscovery services now from one provider,” said Dylan Blaney, VP Business Development, Morningside.

Contact us to learn how Ascent eDiscovery’s comprehensive suite of legal technologies, eDiscovery services, and foreign language solution capabilities can support your litigation needs.

About Morningside

Morningside, a Questel Company, equips the world’s leading organizations with a full suite of end-to-end legal translation, document review, transcription, multimedia, and interpretation solutions. Morningside is globally recognized for its legal expertise and technology innovation in areas such as cross-border and patent litigation, international arbitration, M&A due diligence, FCPA compliance, and multilingual eDiscovery. Our convenient foreign language services cover over 150 languages and ensure that your most urgent projects are reliably delivered on time and on budget. Global 500 legal departments and 97% of Am Law 200 firms rely on Morningside as a trusted partner for their most important matters. Visit www.morningtrans.com for more information on our end-to-end legal translation and interpretation solutions.

About doeLEGAL

doeLEGAL, a Questel Company, is the enterprise-level provider of legal technology solutions and elevated support that gives corporate legal departments and law firms anytime, anywhere control over cases and costs to inform decision-making and drive more successful outcomes. Acting as their business partner, doeLEGAL provides clients valuable insights that reduce legal costs by as much as 50% and increase legal performance by up to 65%. Part of the growing portfolio of Questel companies, doeLEGAL differentiates itself as a leader in global legal tech solutions by providing “Smart data, intelligently delivered.” Visit www.doelegal.com for information on advanced Enterprise Legal Management and eDiscovery services and technology.

About Questel

Questel’s mission is to facilitate the development of innovation in an efficient, secure, and sustainable way. Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider to more than 20,000 clients and one million users across 30 countries. We offer a comprehensive software suite for searching, analyzing, and managing inventions and IP assets. The Questel group also provides services throughout the IP lifecycle, including prior art searches, international filing, translation, and renewals. These solutions, when combined with our IP cost management platform, deliver clients an average savings of 30-60% across the entire prosecution budget.

Dylan Blaney

Dylan Blaney, Vice President of Business Development, Morningside, a Questel Company, is responsible for the company's global legal translation strategy and maintaining relationships with the world's largest corporate legal departments and law firms. Dylan expertly advises law firms and corporations on best legal translation practices, specifically implementing workflows and technology that reduce cost, improve quality, and accelerate deadlines. He specifically focuses on international litigation & arbitration, FCPA, patent litigation, M&A, internal corporate communication & documentation to ensure adequate global communication in the legal marketplace.

This spring, Morningside announced an exciting milestone in the company’s journey. It was such a transformative move that we think it’s important enough to share again:

Questel, one of the world’s largest end-to-end intellectual property solutions providers, has acquired Morningside, a leading IP and language services company.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, Morningside specializes in patent translation and foreign filing solutions as well as legal, life sciences, and corporate compliance language services. With a global presence of 250 employees. Morningside has over 4,000 clients in 55 countries, including many Global 500 companies, law firms, and regulatory bodies.

The acquisition is part of Questel’s strategy to act as a one-stop shop for all of its clients’ IP needs. Since Morningside is one of the largest patent translation companies in the world, the acquisition consolidates Questel’s position as a leading IP translation provider. Morningside also has a major global law firm presence which will allow Questel to expand and diversify its customer base significantly.

“Morningside is an excellent fit for Questel both culturally and strategically,” said Charles Besson, Questel’s CEO. “Translation plays a critical role in providing end-to-end integrated IP solutions to our clients.”

What’s next?

The synergies are clear. Morningside is one of the largest patent translation providers globally, and Questel is the #1 patent filer in the world. Clients of both companies will gain from this acquisition.

Throughout the integration process, Morningside will, of course continue to provide the same best-in-class service that clients expect. But, over the coming months, Morningside’s clients will also begin to benefit from the addition of Questel’s industry-leading solutions for intellectual property, innovation management, legal tech, localization and corporate collaboration.

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