HOW MUCH IS THAT PROBATE BOND REALLY COSTING YOUR LAW FIRM?

You know what the bond costs. There’s a premium attached to it, and that number is easy to see. But there may be another cost associated with getting that bond that never appears on an invoice.

It’s the time your law firm spends getting it done. A few minutes finding information. Another few minutes completing forms. A phone call. An email. A follow-up. A status check. Maybe another question that needs an answer before the request can move forward. Individually, none of those things seems particularly expensive. Put them together, however, and you may be paying considerably more for every bond than you realize.

YOUR STAFF’S TIME ISN’T FREE.

Whether it’s you, a paralegal, a legal assistant or another member of your staff handling the bond request, that person could be doing something else. There are clients who need answers, documents that need to be prepared, deadlines that need to be met and cases that need to keep moving.

Every time someone stops that work to chase down a routine administrative task, there’s a cost. It may not show up as a separate line on your P&L, but your firm is paying for it in payroll, productivity and lost attention.

That’s especially frustrating when the task in question is something you simply have to do. If the court requires a bond, you need the bond. The question isn’t whether you’re going to get it. The question is how much of your firm’s time should it take to get it?

THE REAL PROBLEM ISN’T ONE BOND.

If you handled one probate or guardianship bond every five years, a little inefficiency probably wouldn’t matter much. But if these matters are a regular part of your practice, the math begins to change.

Ten minutes wasted here and twenty minutes there start accumulating. Every repeated piece of information, every unnecessary phone call and every “Just checking on the status” email represents time that could have been spent somewhere else.

There’s another cost, too. Every additional step creates another opportunity for something to stop moving. An email sits unanswered. A form gets put aside. Someone intends to follow up tomorrow. Meanwhile, the bond your client needs is still another unfinished item attached to the case.

A better process doesn’t just save minutes. It removes opportunities for unnecessary delay.

WHAT IF GETTING THE BOND BECAME THE EASY PART?

That was one of the questions behind DARREN™.

After decades of helping attorneys obtain probate and guardianship bonds, I had seen how much unnecessary work could surround something that should be relatively straightforward. So when we built DARREN™, we looked for places where technology could remove that work.

Your firm information can be securely stored and automatically populated instead of being entered again and again. You can get an instant premium quote instead of waiting for someone to call you back. A completed request can be submitted in under two minutes, and because DARREN™ is available 24/7, your staff can start the process when it fits your schedule rather than ours.

Once that completed request is submitted, you also have my two-business-hour underwriting decision guarantee. If the bond is approved, it can be issued immediately.

The objective behind all of it is remarkably simple: stop making your law firm spend valuable time on work that technology can do for you.

BUT EFFICIENCY SHOULDN’T MEAN YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.

There’s a temptation with technology to automate everything possible and then remove the people. That was never what I wanted for DARREN™.

Probate and guardianship bonds can involve unusual circumstances. Questions come up. Underwriting issues arise. Sometimes you need help from someone who understands the bond and knows what needs to happen next.

That’s why real people remain behind DARREN™. The repetitive work can be automated. The experience shouldn’t be.

The result is a process designed to give your firm the efficiency of technology while keeping the human expertise you need when a bond isn’t quite so routine.

SO, WHAT IS YOUR NEXT BOND GOING TO COST YOU?

The premium will be whatever the premium needs to be. But the amount of your firm’s time you spend getting that bond is another matter entirely.

You shouldn’t need a chain of phone calls, emails, repetitive data entry and status checks to get your client what the court requires. Your time is worth more than that, and so is your staff’s.

There is no software to purchase and no subscription fee to use DARREN™. It was built to make getting probate and guardianship bonds faster, easier and less demanding on your practice.

The next time you need one, don’t just think about what the bond costs.

Think about what your time costs.

Then put DARREN™ to work.

CLICK HERE TO REQUEST YOUR BOND THROUGH DARREN™.

Darren Vermost
The Bond Guy®
Probate Bond Pros