Stop by the the ABA TECHSHOW Book Store and learn of some of our new and upcoming legal technology books.
Ask questions, purchase copies, and get some expert insight to the latest legal tech topics!
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ClientPay Adds New Client-Centered, Security-Forward Accounts Receivable Features to Its Cloud-Based Payment Processing Solution for Law Firms
First-to-Market Upgrades Announced at ABA TECHSHOW Include Customization, New Efficiency, Billing Management Options
ST. PAUL, MN, February 28, 2019 – ClientPay (www.clientpay.com), the leading digital payment processing solution for legal and other professional services firms, announced today at the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago (Booth @207) new innovative features for its cloud-based digital payment processing system that strengthen its award-winning technology. The new features are designed to make the accounts receivable process easier for law firms while offering them client-centered collection options that meet or exceed federally mandated security regulations for digital payment processing.
All ClientPay features meet Payment Card Industry (PCI) Level 1 standards, the most rigorous security level available, ensuring that all cardholders’ private information remains protected.
According to ClientPay’s Vince Arnoldi, president and leader of product development, ClientPay is a proven, cloud-based solution that continues to save law firms countless hours and dollars after adopting its technology.
ClientPay’s innovative payment technology is already directly integrated in many of the leading matter management platforms including Thomson Reuters’ ProLaw, Elite 3E, Enterprise and Firm Central offerings; Rippe & Kingston’s Legal Management System; Devlos’ Soluno; and Aderant’s Expert. These direct integrations eliminate redundant data entry and allow legal accounting professionals to attach stored payment types and profiles to invoices and client files, which effectively streamlines legal accounting systems with payment software.
“ClientPay was developed with law firms in mind,” concluded Arnoldi. “It was not only built to improve accuracy in the billing process, accelerate cash flow and lower processing fees, but because it is integrated into matter management workflows – or other business-critical applications – that attorneys are already familiar with, it helps law firms achieve greater efficiency in the accounts receivable process.”
For more information, law firms may contact ClientPay at 1-855-299-0476 or visit www.clientpay.com.
About ClientPay
Based in St. Paul, MN, ClientPay is an award-winning technology solution developed to make life easier for professional service firms through innovations in digital payment processing. ClientPay has been acknowledged as an industry leader, having been awarded the Software and Information Industry’s (SIIA) Best Financial Technology Solution at the 2018 CODIE Awards in San Francisco. Through integrations with some of the legal industry’s top matter management platforms, ClientPay helps companies get paid faster and reduce write-offs all while eliminating billing errors. Learn more at: www.clientpay.com.
Press Contact:
Alison Hinderaker
Maccabee Public Relations for ClientPay
+1 612.337.0087
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ClientPay Partners with Soluno by Devlos to Seamlessly Streamline Legal Payment Processing for Law Firms
ST. PAUL, MN, February 28, 2019 –ClientPay (www.clientpay.com), an award-winning digital payment processing solution for legal and other professional services firms, today announced at the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago (Booth @207) its partnership with practice management solution Soluno by Devlos. The partnership furthers the integration of ClientPay’s innovative payment technology with Soluno’s intuitive time and billing system to provide a modern platform for streamlining legal accounting systems with payment software.
“ClientPay caters to the unique needs of law firms and the rigorous standards they must uphold when taking credit or debit card payments,” said Vince Arnoldi, president and leader of product development for ClientPay. “We are proud to work alongside Soluno to simplify this process and integrate our digital payment processing acceptance software with its matter management platform. Together we will provide law firms with an easier, faster and more secure experience.”
Devlos, one of the fastest growing legal matter management software providers in the United States and Canada, has been disrupting the legal industry since 2014 with its development of a next generation time, billing and accounting solution for law firms. Its latest software, Soluno, was developed to address the needs of small to medium-sized legal firms as an efficient alternative to repetitive and error-prone accounting tasks.
“ClientPay is an established industry leader in digital payment processing acceptance. We love the product’s overall mission of making life easier and know that our customers would be able to increase revenue by offering law firm clients a way to pay 24/7, making life easier for everyone involved,” said Alan Tuback, co-founder and operations lead at Devlos.
The integration of ClientPay and Soluno is underway and currently scheduled to be available to law firms in the second half of 2019. For more information, law firms may contact ClientPay at 1-855-299-0476.
About Devlos
Devlos Software Inc. is the proud creator of the time, billing, and accounting software; Soluno. Devlos was founded in 2014 with the goal to produce an integrated accounting package designed exclusively for law firms and their unique challenges. Devlos was built on a foundation of innovative technology and a people-first philosophy that prioritizes streamlined systems and superior customer experiences. Since the product was launched in October 2017, Soluno has grown to support over 400 users with their legal businesses in both the United States and Canada. Learn more at: www.soluno.legal.
About ClientPay
Based in St. Paul, MN, ClientPay is an award-winning technology solution developed to make life easier for professional service firms through innovations in digital payment processing. ClientPay has been acknowledged as an industry leader, having been awarded the Software and Information Industry’s (SIIA) Best Financial Technology Solution at the 2018 CODIE Awards in San Francisco. Through integrations with some of the legal industry’s top matter management platforms, ClientPay helps companies get paid faster and reduce write-offs all while eliminating billing errors. Learn more at: https://www.clientpay.com.
Press Contact:
Alison Hinderaker
Maccabee Public Relations for ClientPay
+1 612.337.0087
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ABA TECHSHOW is an annual legal technology Conference and EXPO designed to bring lawyers and technology together for three days of CLE and networking. Presented by the ABA Law Practice Division, ABA TECHSHOW helps lawyers practice efficiently through the use of technology.
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Law firm first, business second. At least that’s how it can feel when your heavy caseload makes it nearly impossible to focus on back-office operations. With li2mited time to work on the business side of things, the systems, processes, and people you put in place can mean the continued success of your practice or, in the worst case scenario, contribute to its downfall.
If you’re like many attorneys, you may only have an hour or two each week to spend on your business, so where should you begin? What should you prioritize? A few clues may be found on the Fortune 500 list. These widely respected and highly profitable companies continually invest in the following resources and tools to promote growth:
Now, we won’t sit here and tell you that you need a website. You already know that, but a new study released last month helps to shed some light on just how important it is to keep your website dynamic. The study found that 81% of those surveyed think less of a brand if its website is not updated. Also, 39% of respondents stated that they would think twice about using a product or service if the website isn’t kept current. It’s no surprise that some of the fastest growing teams in successful companies have been in the digital space (think content marketing, user experience, social media, etc).
The Takeaway: Each week commit to spending at least half an hour on your website. You might spend the time writing a new blog post or even checking Google Webmaster Tools for any sudden drops in traffic or crawl errors. Not comfortable doing either? Don’t ignore your website. Look for the right professionals to help—experience in legal marketing, impressive portfolios, and proven results are all must-have credentials.
A great website can help to bring in new leads, but it can’t close deals. That takes regular follow-up, relationship-nurturing, and excellent organizational skills which is why many companies rely on the help of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. At the most basic level, a CRM is designed to help organizations manage interactions with prospects and clients. These platforms can help you track referral sources, efficiently manage your pipeline and even forecast your quarterly revenue. Over the past few years, a number of CRMs have been developed for busy law firms so there is no shortage of options when it comes to finding a tool to help you stay organized and boost your bottom-line.
The Takeaway: The CRM is a perfect example of a tool that most attorneys don’t learn about in law school, but really should. If you don’t yet have one in place to manage your pipeline, explore your options and make implementation an H1 goal.
During a recent strategy meeting I attended at the offices of a leading fintech provider, there was some disagreement about the best way to proceed. As the team looked to the leader of the group, he calmly replied, “show me the data and then we’ll decide.” In today’s world where data is abundant and accessible, business decisions should never be made without it. Yet this isn’t always the case in law firms, where productivity and business data can be buried in disjointed applications or legacy systems. making quick retrieval difficult. Sometimes, the help of a third party is required.
Can you quickly pull together billable hours and realization rate by timekeeper? Are you able to see realized and unrealized revenues from matters introduced by specific referral resources? Can you pull reports like an Accounts Receivable Aging Summary, filtered by practice area or responsible attorney, in 30 seconds flat?
If you answered no to any of the above, it’s time to rethink your reporting options and seek a new solution that helps you get to your data faster so you can make better decisions. To ensure you can see productivity reports in addition to the standard accounting data, look for an end-to-end practice management solution with a built-in CRM, timekeeping and comprehensive accounting tools.
The Takeaway: What isn’t measured can’t be improved. Take some time to identify gaps in your firm’s data. Which numbers can’t you access on your own? What data would have been helpful to you in the past year? Once you have your list of non-negotiables, set out to find a practice management solution that makes data accessible to all of your firm’s stakeholders with the touch of a button.
With a workforce that is demanding more flexibility, a long list of Fortune 500 companies have invested in making their systems and software accessible from anywhere in the world. Law firms have been slower to embrace remote access, and the solutions that have been adopted (remoting into your office desktop, for example) aren’t ideal. To ensure that you have access to all of your cases and business data, you need to embrace the cloud.
The Takeaway: The cloud isn’t something to fear. Look for a cloud-based practice management solution that allows you to access all of your matters, contacts, emails, and documents from your cell phone or another office.
Last year alone, we saw a long list of industry giants, including Starwood, Facebook and Under Armour, fall victim to massive data breaches. These incidents not only harm a brand’s reputation, but they can also seriously affect its bottom line, which is why companies are doubling down on their teams and systems dedicated to protecting data. Law firms are also at risk and far too many have been slow to rise to the challenge.
Now I realize that few attorneys can be expected to become cybersecurity experts; all, however, should understand the threats and have a basic understanding of where their data is stored and what their vendors (IT consultants and/or third-party software providers) are doing to keep their data safe.
The Takeaway: When it comes to cybersecurity, your firm can’t afford to be reactive, it must be proactive. With so much information stored in your practice management software, be sure to start there. If you have on-premise servers, how often are they updated and monitored for threats? What happens if there is a flood in your office that damages the server? With so many threats and constantly evolving technologies to contend with, you might consider hiring an expert to perform regular security audits
Cloud-based solutions also present unique challenges and you’ll want to ask any vendor about their disaster recovery plan and where their servers are located. Also, inquire about redundancy, brute force attack countermeasures and make sure all of your documents, and critical data, are encrypted. Complete audits, by cybersecurity experts, should be performed on a regular basis to ensure ongoing best-practices are in place for all of your systems.
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Managing local counsel and assembling their billing is a time-consuming challenge. Manual entry and non-compliant billing cause delays in the legal billing process, with both lead and local counsel losing time, productivity, and ultimately, profit.
Without accurate and organized systems in place to manage the local counsel billing process, attorneys can expect to continue to lose out on revenue and un-billable administrative time.
However, optimizing local counsel management is now made easier than ever before by using “Moneyball-like” legal analytics solutions. These solutions allow law firms to collect, review, and process local counsel billing with ease and efficiency.
The Association of Corporate Counsel notes that “local counsel will help you with knowledge of local rules, court systems, judges and potential jury considerations,” and that “[e]specially in cases with higher monetary stakes, local knowledge and insight concerning the public’s perception of plaintiffs and defendants could be invaluable.”
However, managing local counsel billing can present troubling issues. For example, in order to maintain confidentiality and prevent extensive conflicts checks and approvals, lead counsel should limit and assign only specific matters in their billing systems for local counsel eyes.
In the same article, the ACC suggests separating matters avoids such inevitable issues, if the lead law firm operates using efficient roll-call systems to organize and distribute information.
Moreover, local counsel must be able to conveniently access and provide their billing entries without disrupting, interfering with, or prolonging the billing process.
The ACC also suggests that law firms can achieve a significant degree of savings by standardizing the local counsel management process, and including as to billing.
In fact, differing processes for billing rules compliance, differing notions of what a reasonable charge for services looks like, and differing approaches to coding of entries can create difficulties for local counsel, lead counsel, and their mutual clients.
However, with the rise of AI and machine learning technologies, law firms can take advantage of the opportunity to automatically standardize time and expense entries using their existing legal matter management and systems.
To address these challenges, EffortlessLegal offers BillerAssist LEDES Edition, a 2019 ABA TECHSHOW StartUp Alley Finalist. BillerAssist LEDES Edition uses the latest in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning technologies to boost profits for lead and local counsel alike.
In addition to the app’s other features, law firms using BillerAssist LEDES Edition can add local counsel to:
This allows law firms to easily and efficiently collect, review, and process local counsel billing, with zero hassle for the client.
In addition, the app allows its law firm users to add local counsel without any additional cost.
Reaching maximum productivity includes standardizing automatic time and bill expenses using the latest in AI and machine learning technology, including as to local counsel.
Law firms can now easily optimize local counsel management by using BillerAssist LEDES Edition to organize and assign matters in real-time, while also substantially reducing legal bill review and processing.
Learn more at EffortlessLegal.com, and come by our booth in StartUp Alley for a free demo!
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Orion Law Management Launches Orion 5 at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago
New Technology Includes Major Enhancements for Prebilling, Conflict Avoidance, Tracking and Reporting, and iOrion Integrations with Major Map and Rideshare Apps
ATLANTA, GA, February 27, 2019– Orion Law Management Systems, Inc. (“Orion”)(www.orionlaw.com), a leading provider of Financial and Practice Management software for law firms, officially launches Orion 5 at the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago (booth#731). Orion 5 marks a significant leap forward for Orion’s technology, including hundreds of new features and improvements to both Orion desktop and iOrion® mobile platforms. Orion 5 updates are available free of charge to all Orion maintenance customers.
Highlights of Orion 5 include:
and Waze.For a complete list of Orion 5’s new features, improvements and enhancements, download the brochure here. For more information or to schedule a demo, email info@orionlaw.com.
About Orion Law Management Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1985, Orion Law Management Systems, Inc. is dedicated to providing law firms with proven law practice management software. Utilizing a complete practice management approach, Orion is a fully integrated law management system employing the very latest in reliable technology. Orion centralizes your Financial Management, Firm Management and Practice Management delivering the competitive advantage that law firms need to succeed. Orion Law Management Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Atlanta. For information visit www.orionlaw.com, call 1.800.305.5867, email info@orionlaw.com or follow us on Twitter @Orion_Law.
Contact:
Christy Burke
Burke & Company
(917) 623-5096
cburke@burke-company.com
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Witnessing a dinosaur egg hatching must be a magical moment. Until, that is, you're punched on the chin by a mechanical arm.
That's what happened to a young girl visiting Universal Orlando in 2013, and she and her family finally settled a lawsuit against the theme park, for $75,000.
Jurassic Lawsuit
According to Orlando Weekly, the child was struck on the chin by a mechanical arm on the Dinosaur Egg Scanner attraction at Universal's Jurassic Park land: "The device was part of a display that offered display of fake dinosaur eggs 'hatching,' and visitors could pull a level to scan some of the eggs, which would result in a simulated scan image of a baby dinosaur on a screen." Universal claimed the scanner machinery was manufactured by a third party, but ultimately agreed to settle the case.
The settlement payments will be made into an annuity fund for the girl, referred to only as "L.M." in court filings. Only she (not her parents) will be able to access the funds, and not until 2027, when the fund will be worth an estimated $98,000.
Legal Themes
Suing theme parks for injuries can be tricky. Many require guests to sign liability waivers that assert the park will not be legally responsible for any injuries. They may also argue that patrons have come for a little bit of danger, and have assumed the risk of any injuries they sustain. Still, as a public attraction theme parks are legally required to take reasonable steps to assure the safety of the premises for guests. And most parks prefer to avoid the bad publicity of an on-site injury lawsuit, so they are often more likely to settle out-of-court.
If you have questions about injuries sustained at a theme park, or park liability in general, contact a local personal injury attorney.
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