If this is your first time logging into Oryn, this guide gets you usefully oriented in 30 minutes. It assumes someone at your firm has already set up the firm account and invited you — if you’re standing up Oryn from scratch, see What is Oryn? first.

Minute 0: sign in

The sign-in URL is the one your firm administrator sent — for most firms that’s oryn.decoded-systems.com. Sign in with the email address the invitation went to. You’ll see Oryn’s main dashboard: a list of your matters on the left, the calendar of upcoming deadlines in the middle, and your inbox on the right.

You won’t see anyone else’s matters. Oryn enforces matter-level access — the only matters in your list are the ones you’ve been added to.

Minutes 1-5: open a matter

Click any matter to open it. The matter view has six tabs across the top:

  • Overview — the client, the parties, the case caption, the assigned attorneys, the matter status.
  • Documents — every file attached to the matter. Drag and drop to upload. Folders are predictable: pleadings, discovery, correspondence, evidence, signed.
  • Pleadings — Oryn’s form-generator. Pick a form, fill the gap-fields once, and Oryn re-uses your client and matter data for every related filing.
  • Calendar — deadlines, hearings, depositions. Anything you set here also lands on your dashboard calendar.
  • Communications — email and SMS threads tied to this matter, with attachments saved into Documents automatically.
  • Time & billing — time entries, invoices, trust ledger.

Click around. The data is your firm’s real data; clicking a tab doesn’t change anything until you save.

Minutes 5-15: generate a pleading

Pleadings is where Oryn earns its keep on day one. Open a matter, click Pleadings, then New pleading.

  1. Pick the form you need. Washington dependency and family-law forms are pre-loaded; criminal, T&E, and general-litigation forms are on the roadmap. If your form isn’t there, search the form bank or upload a template.
  2. The form opens pre-filled with everything Oryn already knows — client name, case number, court, judge, party names. Gap-fields are highlighted.
  3. Fill the gap-fields. Tab moves you between them in reading order.
  4. Click Preview. Oryn renders the filled PDF on pleading paper with your firm’s signature block.
  5. Save drops the PDF into the matter’s Documents/Pleadings folder, ready to file or e-sign.

You did not retype the client’s address. You did not re-look-up the case number. That’s the whole point.

Minutes 15-25: send a document for signature

E-signature is built in — no separate Dropbox Sign or DocuSign account, and no extra per-signature fee.

  1. Open the document you want signed in the matter’s Documents tab.
  2. Click Send for signature.
  3. Add the recipient’s email. Drag signature, initials, and date fields onto the page where they need to land.
  4. Click Send. The recipient gets an email, signs in their browser, and the signed PDF lands back in the matter’s Documents/Signed folder with an audit trail.

Trust accounting, PDF editing, and OCR are built in the same way — no separate accounts to set up, no per-action fees.

Minutes 25-30: set up your week

Open the dashboard (click the Oryn wordmark to get there from anywhere). Three things make the next week sane:

  • Pin your active matters. Click the pin icon next to any matter in your list to keep it on top. Your dashboard’s “Recent matters” panel shows pinned + recently-touched.
  • Add your court days to the calendar. Calendar entries created on the dashboard are visible to anyone on the matter; entries created inside a matter are only visible to people on that matter.
  • Connect your email. If your firm hasn’t already, link your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 mailbox under Integrations → Mail. Threads addressed to a matter’s email alias auto-attach to that matter’s Communications tab and the attachments land in Documents.

When you have another 30 minutes, the docs that matter most are:

When something goes wrong

The in-app support panel — the small chat-bubble at the bottom-right corner of every page — opens a thread directly into our support queue. We respond fast during the beta. Median first-response time is published live at orynlaw.decoded-systems.com/trust/status so you can see for yourself.

If Oryn looks broken — pages won’t load, save fails — check the public infrastructure status at orynlaw.decoded-systems.com/status. If that page reports operational and you’re still stuck, the support panel is the right place.

Last updated: 2026-05-10 ← All articles