New Demo Webinars – Final Reminder!
As you have heard, Orion recently announced many new features during LegalTech NY 2014. These include the Expense Reimbursement Manager, Orion Productivity Pack, and expanded mobile capabilities through iOrion® Version 2.0.
Due to the great demand we have received for more information on these new features, Orion will be hosting informative demos on each of these products.
iOrion Version 2.0 Demo Webinar
Tuesday, April 1st – 12:00 PM EDT
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Orion Productivity Pack Demo Webinar
Wednesday, April 2nd – 12:00 PM EDT
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Orion Expense Reimbursement Manager Demo Webinar
Thursday, April 3rd – 12:00 PM EDT
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If you haven’t had a chance to read the Press Release on these new enhancements, we have posted this below. Contact our Support Desk for information on getting these products launched at your firm.
iOrion® Contest Announcement
iOrion Version 2.0 features many new updates and enhancements to iOrion, our complete financial and practice management mobile application that allows legal professionals to access data from Orion using any recent-model iOS device.
If you haven’t made the addition of iOrion at your firm, you can still subscribe by May 1st to be entered into our contest. For more information, make sure to attend the iOrion Webinar on Tuesday, April 1st.
On Monday, June 2nd we will be randomly selecting a winner to receive a FREE iPad Mini!
Rules/Eligibility – Contest open to new iOrion subscribers as well as existing subscribers who purchase an additional 10-user pack during outlined time frame, Every 10-user pack subscription gets the firm one entry in the drawing, Additional 10-user pack subscriptions to iOrion are eligible for multiple entries, Firm must begin subscription by May 1, 2014 and must purchase annual license by May 31, 2014.
Orion’s Latest Press Release
Orion Announces New Features with the Expense Reimbursement Manager, Orion Productivity Pack, and Expanded Mobile Capabilities through iOrion® Version 2.0
LegalTech NY – New York City – February 4, 2014 – Orion Law Management Systems, Inc., a leading provider of financial and practice management software for law firms, announces iOrion Version 2.0, an enhanced and fully integrated iOS-ready mobile app, and also releases new features including the Expense Reimbursement Manager, and the Orion Productivity Pack for Microsoft Office at LegalTech New York…
To read the complete release, click here.
Orion Client Spotlight
“Dorough and Dorough has been an Orion client for many years now. We made the transition to Orion’s Financial Management Software once realizing we needed a more sophisticated and robust system at our firm. Over the years we’ve valued the quick, responsive support we’ve received from Orion’s staff, as well as the new features and advancements made to the software itself. We certainly value the benefits of implementing Orion’s software at our firm.”
Lynn Van Horn, Firm Administrator
Dorough & Dorough, LLC
Dorough & Dorough, LLC. was founded in 1998 and is located in Decatur, Georgia. They offer a wide range of real estate related legal services: from serving some of the most successful national, regional and local builders and developers of planned communities and condominium projects to representing over four hundred and fifty community associations in the Atlanta area. They are committed to providing the finest legal representation while establishing long term relationships with their clients.
News from 4L Law Firm Services
Orion and 4L recently hosted another informative and free financial management webinar for law firm managers focusing on “Daily Collection Pace”. For those of you who were unable to attend, click the link below to view a recording.
How to Decide Whether Today’s Bank Deposit is Sufficient to Make Budget?
View Webinar Recording
View Webinar Presentation Slides
This webinar was hosted by Mike Marget of 4L Law Firm Services. 4L performs outsourced book-keeping, billing and CFO services for small/midsize law firms. Be on the lookout for more webinar announcements, and feel free to email Mike with any questions.
Mike Marget will also be making a presentation titled Top 10 Mistakes Law Firms Continue to Make to the Houston Association of Legal Administrators Chapter on April 16th at the Four Seasons Hotel. Mike’s presentation has received CLM accreditation and is scheduled to begin at 3:30 PM.
4L’s Client base expands next month with the addition of Foreman & Friedman, P.A., a firm with 26 lawyers based in Miami, FL and Northbrook, IL. The law firm will begin using Orion’s Financial Management Software, with 4L providing bookkeeping, billing and CFO services to the firm on an outsourcing basis.
4L is also excited to announce the addition of a new staff member, Devin Mora, who has 6.5 years experience as a “Billing Specialist” at Holland & Knight LLP. Devin worked at H&K’s Centralized Billing Department in Tampa where he converted pre-bills to final invoice form and electronic invoice delivery for the law firm’s 1,000+ lawyers.
Orion User Group Meeting Announcement
Orion will be hosting our 2014 User Group Meeting this fall, October 20th – 22nd. Once again, this event will be held at the fabulous Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort located in Atlanta, Georgia.
We are compiling an exciting agenda of pertinent topics, breakout sessions and excellent speakers. Information on pricing and agenda will be coming soon so mark your calendars now, you won’t want to miss this event! Stay tuned for more information regarding registration and scheduling in next month’s Orion Happenings.
ALA Annual Conference & Exposition
As a proud supporter of the ALA, Orion will be attending the 2014 ALA Annual Conference & Exposition, taking place May 19th – 22nd, 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We look forward to spending time with our clients and fellow ALA Members at this event each year, make sure to stop by our booth while you are there!
Registration for attendees is now open. Join Orion in Toronto… for more information, click here.
Orion’s New Website Launch
Our website provides a fresh new look along with user-friendly navigation, updated with the latest information about our products and services.
We hope that you enjoy visiting our new site, and are able to take advantage of the responsive design that makes browsing on any mobile device, tablet or computer even more intuitive!
Support Corner
Financial Management
I am unable to generate an invoice due to an unapplied/unposted payment. However, I have no Accounts Receivable in which to apply the transaction. What do I need to do?
Orion requires all accounting transactions that have been through an invoicing cycle be applied and posted before a new invoice can be generated on the Matter. A problem occurs if there is no accounts receivable to which you can apply the transaction. In the past, you would have to determine what invoice the transaction appeared on, unpost and void that invoice, potentially reverse other payments, etc. Now there is a way in the system to change the accounting transaction back to the state of not having been through an invoicing cycle so you can either delete the transaction or generate a new invoice…
To read the complete tutorial, click here.
Practice Management
Our Firm just began using Orion’s Exchange Sync. How can I assign a Client/Matter to multiple Appointments that were just synced from Outlook to Orion, without clicking on each one individually?
To change settings for multiple Tasks/Appointments, you’ll need to open the Advanced Event Viewer from your left tool bar.
Once opened, change your view to “Filter”.
Now you’ll need to fill out this screen. If you are making edits just for yourself, select “Current Person” under the Assigned window on the right. If you are doing this for a different user, you’ll need to select his or her name off the available field and then press right red arrow sending their name over to the selected column…
To read the complete tutorial, click here.
Tech Tip
Intelligent Writing – Improving Your Writing Skills
Do you ever wish you could write more effectively? Or, do you find writing to be a difficult task? If you answered yes, we have good news. Technology can help to improve your writing skills as well as save you valuable time by doing the proofreading for you. Word Rake© can help you with this and is designed by attorneys, for attorneys.
Word Rake is available as a simple add-in to your existing Microsoft Word software. It has the capability of scanning approx. 25 pages a minute, while intelligently offering edits to your document based on the language used…
To read the rest of the article which includes examples of Word Rake edits, click here.
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