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Invitation to an OPSIS Product Seminar – 2nd December 2009

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of some changes within IRIS Legal Software which affects our client base in Northern Ireland.

IRIS Legal owns both OPSIS Practice Management Solutions and AlphaLAW products and supply around 85% of the Northern Ireland legal market.

We invite you to a product seminar for all OPSIS users on the morning of 2nd December 2009 at the Ramada Belfast at Shaw’s Bridge. This seminar will give you more information on the latest versions of Millennium Solo, Solicitor Case Manager and integrated Practice Management Solution and is invaluable for those of you who want to find out more about the future of IT.

Brian Welsh, the newly appointed Commercial Director for Scotland and Ireland, will be chairing the seminar.  Brian is completely committed to providing the Northern Ireland legal community with innovative and specific products to meet the needs of an ever changing legal landscape, and has been responsible for doing this in the Scottish legal market for many years. It is our goal to make sure that all of our clients are provided with the best products for the market backed up by the best service.

At the seminar we will be informing you of the benefits and recent enhancements to the OPSIS products including additional Legal Accounts modules and available legal precedent starter packs for our Case applications. The latest versions of these products offer a variety of additional time; cost and efficiency benefits which will help you address the needs of your practice, whilst retaining a high level of client service. All of which are critical in these economic times.

We will also be informing you of the other products available from the wider IRIS Legal portfolio including our electronic legal forms package Laserforms and Hosted environments.

If you would like to attend the OPSIS product seminar or would just like further information on OPSIS then please complete and return the Faxback (click for Word document) to 01274 851631, telephone 0844 815 5570 or e-mail legalexecs@iris.co.uk

November 9th, 2009 | Tags: Iris, OPSIS News, OPSIS Sales | Category: Exhibitions, OPSIS News |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Millennium Accounts V5.77.0

The Millennium Accounts release of 5.77 is now available.

It is primarily for Civil Legal Aid requirements that come into effect on the 9th November 2009 and Civil providers should install this update on that date or as soon after as is practical.

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Millennium Accounts 5.77 Release Notes

Legal Aid Changes For November 2009

• The CLS Claim 1 form has been updated to version 12 November 2009.
• A new Civil Matter Type Part I has been added for Welfare Benefits: “WESA” - “Employment and Support Allowance”.
• A new Debt outcome has been added: “DJ” - “Debt Relief Orders”.

Reporting Enhancement

• There is now an updated version of the Purchase Ledger Listing Report, which includes the option to refine the layout.

Since this release applies to only a few of our customers we are contacting them directly to arrange their updates.

For more information, release notes and downloads of the latest Millennium Accounts software go to our website Legal Aid Announcement support page.

November 9th, 2009 | Tags: Legal Aid, Millennium, OPSIS Support, Releases, Software Releases | Category: Legal Aid, OPSIS Support, Releases |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Version 5.4 of Solicitor Case Manager Beginners User Guide is now available from the Case Manager Resources section of the website.

SCM 5.4

This is a password-protected download.

August 4th, 2009 | Tags: News, OPSIS Support, Resources, SCM | Category: OPSIS Support, Resources |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

OPSIS Case Application Starter Packs - order yours today!

OPSIS now has a complete selection of Case Application Starter Packs for all areas of law including Conveyancing, Criminal, Civil Litigation, Family, Immigration, Personal Injury, Debt Recovery, Mental Health and Wills & Probate.

OPSIS Case Starter Packs are fully integrated into OPSIS Small Practice System (SPS) and Practice Management System (PMS) products - so it couldn’t be easier!

These starter packs contain all the necessary workflows and legal precedents required for all areas of legal work so if you thinking of diversifying into any other areas of law then talk to us.

OPSIS Case Starter Packs allow:

• Improved efficiency using the flexible and easy to use workflow tools
• Customisable precedents which can be changed easily
• Case automation so senior staff can off-load admin work to junior staff

We think you will be pleasantly surprised at just how affordable our Case Applications really are, whatever the size of your Practice.

For more information on any of our Case Application Starter Packs click here or to arrange a no-obligation demo of the software please call Jason or Jo on 01476 581785 or e-mail legal@iris.co.uk

July 21st, 2009 | Tags: Legal Documents, Legal Precedents | Category: OPSIS News |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Millennium Accounts V5.75.0

The Millennium Accounts release of 5.75.0 primarily contains major Legal Aid changes valid from 1st June 2009.

You will probably have received notification of this directly from the LSC (OPSIS are not responsible for supplying this information).

Below is the relevant information from the release notes:-

The following information has been supplied by the LSC and is accurate at the time of inclusion. Please refer to the LSC website for the most up to date information.

Transitional Arrangements:

These will follow the same approach that has been used in previous updates to LSC Online where the changes are implemented on a single switch over date.

This will be over night on the 31st May 2009, with the new functionality in place on 1st June 2009.

All submissions submitted and APPROVED by LSC Online prior to the switch over date will be accepted using the current arrangements. After this date (1/6/2009) all outcomes reported will have to adhere to the new reporting and validation arrangements regardless of when the work was started, completed or the submission month it is included in. This will include work entered into LSC Online but not yet in a status of APPROVED (i.e it is has not yet been accepted by the LSC and therefore can still be updated by the supplier).

Legal Aid Enhancements:

Civil Billing - Mental Health Meeting Codes:

A new set of meeting codes, for Mental Health cases, are available which replace the existing LSC codes and must be used for submissions from 01/06/2009 onwards. The new meeting codes begin with MTGA. e.g. “MTGA01 - No meetings attended.” Any bills already posted using the old meeting codes, but not yet submitted, must be amended to use the new meeting codes using the Bill Legal Aid Claim Detail screen prior to bulk load submission or they risk rejection.

Civil Billing - Controlled Legal Representation:

There is additional mandatory data required from all immigration/asylum providers in relation to how many times Controlled Legal Representation was granted in the month, how many times it was refused and how many times CLR was withdrawn. It is mandatory that all immigration providers supply this data. You can enter this information from the LSC Online Bulk Load screen.

Please refer to the LSC website or contact the LSC directly for the most up to date information.

For more information, release notes and downloads of the latest Millennium Accounts software go to our website Legal Aid Announcement support page.

May 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Legal Aid, OPSIS Support, Software Releases | Category: Legal Aid, OPSIS Support, Releases |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

As promised in a previous blog post, and long overdue, the new seperate and dedicated OPSIS Ireland Sales website is at last finished, and can be viewed at http://www.opsisltd.ie. The Ireland website was originally planned as part of our internet domain and website reorganisation more than a year ago, but for various reasons took a little longer than expected.

OPSIS Ireland website

Besides providing important company and contact information for customers in Northern ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man, the site provides details about the main differences of our products when configured for use in the North or South of Ireland.

There are extended Testimonials and Case Study sections based on a variety of existing customer installations.

Customer service is provided by the normal route via the UK & Ireland Support and Helpdesk website which can be found at http://support.opsisltd.co.uk.

We hope our prospects and customers will find the new dedicated Ireland website useful, and we welcome any feedback on its content.

Click here to visit OPSIS Ireland

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: OPSIS News | Category: OPSIS News |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Welcome to the Spring issue of OPSIS News!

The Spring newsletter was emailed to our customers last week, but if you missed it or are new to OPSIS you can find the online version of the OPSIS Newsletter by clicking the link below……

Spring 2009 Issue of OPSIS News

Headlines are as follows:-

• Welcome to IRIS from Tony Bromfield, MD of IRIS Legal
• About the OPSIS move to Grantham
• Introduction to the OPSIS Team (see photos of team members)
• New OPSIS Website
• IRIS Technical services
• Legal Aid changes - register your interest in an OPSIS Legal Aid Workshop
• OPSIS New Clients and Upgrades
• OPSIS Millennium - New Releases and Updates
• IRIS Legal Charity News

You are also welcome to send feedback to us about any of the articles contained in the Newsletter. Just use the feedback form found at the bottom of the newsletter pages.

May 8th, 2009 | Tags: OPSIS News | Category: OPSIS News |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Year End

Struggling to find time to complete your Year End procedures?

Perhaps you haven’t even started. At OPSIS we have both the time and the know-how to help.

Please call our Sales Team on 0844 815 5751 to find out more.

April 9th, 2009 | Tags: OPSIS Sales, OPSIS Support, year end | Category: OPSIS News, OPSIS Support |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment

Version 5.4.4 of Solicitor Case Manager has been released and is accompanied by Release Notes available from the Case Manager Resources section of the website.

SCM 5.4.4

Please read the Release Notes to determine if this release will be useful to you and contact the Helpdesk to arrange your upgrade to SCM V5.4 Release 4.

Changes affect:-

• Modification and Improvements to the Marketing Module
• A couple of bug fixes

April 9th, 2009 | Tags: Releases, SCM, Software Releases | Category: OPSIS Support, Releases |  Print This Post |  Email this Post | Leave a comment