Time & Billing

Signs Your On-Prem Financial System Is Holding Your Firm Back (and Three Options For Change) 

By Zoe Gengenbach / August 25, 2026

Aging financial systems rarely fail in a single dramatic outage. They fail quietly: through workarounds, brittle integrations, and processes that “work” because your team has learned to compensate. For many large law firms, the movement towards modern law firm financial management software begins when finance and IT leaders recognize that the current platform is no…

How to Bill as an Attorney: The Practitioner’s Manual

By Lisa Teet / July 9, 2026

Nobody teaches billing in law school, and yet an attorney’s billed time is how the work becomes a livelihood. This is the manual most lawyers never get: how attorney billing works, how to record time so it gets paid, what block billing is and why to never do it, and the habits that separate attorneys…

The Productivity Pack: Work Your Way, Work Faster

By Zoe Gengenbach / October 9, 2025

Is your technology making your job easier? Or are you spending too much time jumping between applications and retyping the same information?   Orion’s Productivity Pack lets you put information into Orion while you’re working in Microsoft Word or Outlook, like:  Learn more about the features available in the Orion Productivity Pack Fee entry, simplified  Contemporaneous…

Prebilling Is a Beast. Tame It With Tech. 

By Lisa Teet / February 13, 2025

Paper prebilling wastes time and introduces errors. Discover how electronic prebilling software like Orion’s ePrebill makes the process faster, easier, and more accurate.