Rion: Conflicts in the Cloud Integration with Clio: Practice Management Software Now Available

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Pricing

We offer monthly and annual subscriptions with straight-forward pricing. No contracts, and no commitments. With all subscriptions you receive unlimited (24/7) access to our entire suite of tools and features.

-          Monthly Subscription: $15 per Billing Attorney / month

-          Annual Subscription: $150 per Billing Attorney / year

-          All subscriptions include a 30 Day Free Trial (no credit card required)

Features

·        Our cloud based software provides access to Billing Attorneys, Administrative Users, and Conflict Analysts, from your office or mobile device. 

·        The Rion algorithm detects potential conflicts with clients, adversaries, and other parties.

·        Upload and store documents including engagement letters, correspondence, intake forms, etc.

·        Export Conflict Check Report to PDF, or send it directly to your Clio account.

·        Clio integration provides both importing and exporting functionality, allowing you to update and create new matters in Rion and sync with Clio in real time.

Problem Worth Solving

Conflict checks are the cornerstone for avoiding risk in taking on new business, so it is imperative to hold the process in a high regard. It is particularly important for clients of legal services provides to know that their lawyers are ethical.

Our Solution

Rion helps lawyers maintain ethics and provide their clients with transparency through streamlined due diligence, which allows them to spend more time on billable work.

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At www.conflictchecksonline.com

Emerging Legal Technologies and Malpractice

New technologies have evolved the way in which legal practices serve client needs. Some features and functions of legal practice management software include: case management, time tracking, document assembly, contract management, calendaring and docketing, and time and billing.

Not only is the purpose of such software, as discussed above, to assist law firms with everyday practice needs, but many seek to reduce the possibilities of engaging in legal malpractice.

Essentially, it can be agreed that regardless of a lawyer’s competency to handle a legal matter, the possibility of a malpractice claims become increasingly more possible as the matter becomes more complex. Some of the major areas in which malpractice claims tend to follow, involve, but are not limited to, the following: deadlines, failure to settle, poor management of expectations/poor communication, lack of knowledge or preparation, and conflicts of interest.

According to one report on legal malpractice, depending on which malpractice carrier supplied the information, the highest figures reported 12 out of every 100 attorneys being targeted by malpractice suits.^[1] Figures from the same report, found the median figures being between $10,000 and $30,000 for total malpractice damages, in which a claimant was successful in recuperating. Furthermore, about 9.4 to 12 percent of malpractice damages exceeded $100,000.

  

1 This particular report stated, the “[Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company of Kentucky] and [Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company], report frequency of claims per 100 lawyers insured... WILMIC shows rates ranging from about 3.75 to 4.75 100 lawyers while for LMICK the corresponding rates range from 2.71 to 3.79 claims for 100 lawyers... The [Oregon State Bar Professional Liability Fund]... claim rate was about 12 per 100 insured.“ Reports for the Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society are much lower because it reports claims per 1,000 lawyers and figures 6.5 and 8.5 per 1,000 lawyers since about 2000. Herbert M. Kritzer & Neil Vidmar, When the Lawyer Screws Up: A portrait of Legal Malpractice Claims and their Resolution (2015), available at 
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6182&context=faculty_scholarship 

THE RION CORP STANDARD:

RION Corp. has developed a cutting edge conflicts software application that is accessible in the Cloud. RION provides a secure, audit friendly, intuitive software program that is easy to use, highly accessible and customizable, and provides value through time and cost savings.

We promise that with our software, law firms are able to engage in the representation of clients knowing they are not violating the professional rules of responsibility.

MALPRACTICE VIOLATIONS BY TYPE

Type of Error	Percentage	U.S. Ranking
Legal Competency	11.3%	1
Planning Error	8.9%	2
Failure to Investigate	8.8%	3
Failure to File Documents	8.6%	4
Fail to Calendar	6.7%	5
Fail to know Deadlines	6.6%	6
Procrastination	5.9%	7
Fail to Obtain Consent	5.4%	8
Confilct of Interest	5.3%	9
Fraud	5.0%	10

* These are the top 10 violations reported by the American Bar Association. The complete chart listing all violations can be found at http://www.americanbar.org/publications/law_practice_home/law_practice_archive/lpm_magazine_webonly_webonly07101.html.

“Conflict of interest claims were down slightly to just 5 percent of all claims.  Computerized conflict checks, combined with standardized conflict resolution procedures, resulted in some improvements in this area.” 

* Randy Evans and Shari Klevens, How High Is Your Legal Malpractice Risk?, The Recorder, available at http://www.therecorder.com/id=12 02740408791/How-High-Is- Y our- Legal-Malpractice- Risk?mcode=0&curindex=0&curpage =2.

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With our legal practice software we can lower the possibility of embarrassing, time-consuming, and potentially expensive risks associated with the failure to complete a comprehensive conflict check. With our highly efficient system we can lower the risk of an ethical violation for the failure to exhaustively complete a conflict check analysis. RION Corp. can offer affordable prices that will depend on the size of the firm. We also offer assistance in helping your firm successfully integrate our cutting edge software. 

Eric Fortineaux, Esq.
eric@rioncorp.com

Have you heard?

We recently read in a legal ethics article that conflict of interest claims were down slightly to just 5 percent of all malpractice claims because computerized conflict checks, combined with standardized conflict resolution procedures, resulted in some improvements in this area.

View the full article here:

http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202740408791/How-High-Is-Your-Legal-Malpractice-Risk?cmp=share_email

Please contact us with questions, and be sure to ask for a demo!

Thank you,
RION Corp.

Conflicts & The Cloud

"The Cloud" is a big conversation, and has been for quite some time. It might be a good idea to review what "The Cloud" is and how it pertains to us in the community of conflicts checks.

HISTORY

The idea of "The Cloud" has been around since the 1950's when mainframes were seen as the future of computing. "Dumb Terminals" were established at that time, and they were used for communications, but had no internal processing capacities. This is akin to the virtual terminals we use today where the computer terminal itself is accessing all of it's apps and software virtually, and none of the processing happens at the actual machine. Because mainframes were so expensive back then, it allowed multiple users to share physical access from multiple machines while driving down cost (as per time and CPU usage was accounted for at that time). This practice was often referred to "time-sharing", and IBM and DEC were some of the first to familiarize the term.

In the 1990's we saw telco companies start to offer VPN (Virtual Private Network) services with the same quality of service as "time-sharing", but at a lower price point. This allowed them to balance traffic and use server capacity more effectively.

TODAY

In talking about "The Cloud" in a modern sense, there's a bunch of technical opinions and IT-speak that doesn't really mean much to us. Today "The Cloud" really just means the ability to access a program or file from the internet instead of storing it on your computer, or in a folder on a network or server - or on paper.

As far as conflicts checking software in "The Cloud", this generally means that you'd log into a web page and do your work within an internet-based system. Good programs will integrate with the rest of your practice management software which may be in or out of the cloud depending on your provider, and the requirements of your firm.

PROS & CONS

Cloud Software means that you can access the program from anywhere (possibly freeing a conflicts analyst, manager, or attorney from the office on occasion). In the case of RION, for example, attorneys will be able to run a "Quick Check" from a tablet, smart phone, or laptop while in the field (possibly meeting with a client) - and if the quick check is clear she could accept business right then and there.

Conversely, it is not paper-based, so firms that require physical copies to be maintained may need to print PDF's of reports and file them manually if you're using a cloud-based system.

Because we can see the increase in popularity for the concept of "The Cloud" over the last 70 or so years, we can be confident that technology will continue to move in this direction. If you haven't already, we recommend preparing your conflicts for the cloud as it is nearly inevitable. We also expect that technology for conflicts in "The Cloud" will be evolving and improving to account for the needs of the conflicts checks at law firms and other areas.

What kinds of things concern you about moving conflicts checks to the cloud?  We invite you to share in the comments section below.


Cori Blackburn
224.277.3855
cori.blackburn@rioncorp.com