THE ATTORNEY JUST HANDED YOU A PROBATE BOND TO DEAL WITH. NOW WHAT?

If you’re a paralegal or legal assistant in a probate practice, you probably know how this goes. Somewhere in the course of handling a case, the attorney discovers that a bond is required, and before long, that bond has migrated from the attorney’s desk to yours.

Now it’s your problem.

Not because getting bonds is what you were hired to do, of course. It’s simply one of those jobs that has to get done, and you’re the person everyone trusts to figure out how to make it happen.

I’ve worked with enough law firms over the years to know that the person requesting the bond is very often not the attorney whose name is on the case. It’s the person behind the scenes keeping 37 different things from falling through the cracks.

If that’s you, I built DARREN™ with you in mind, too.

YOU SHOULDN’T NEED A SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOMEONE ELSE’S SYSTEM.

You know the kind of process I’m talking about. You send something in, make a note to follow up, put a reminder on your calendar, wait for an email, check to see whether anyone responded and eventually make a phone call because you’re not quite sure where things stand.

Now multiply that by all the other cases sitting on your desk.

The problem isn’t necessarily that any one task is particularly difficult. The problem is keeping track of all of them. Every open loop becomes something else you have to remember, revisit or follow up on.

A routine bond request shouldn’t need that much babysitting.

When we built DARREN™, one of the things I wanted to eliminate was the need for you to create extra work simply to manage the work.

YOU’VE ALREADY TOLD US WHO YOU ARE.

There are few things more irritating than repeatedly entering information that hasn’t changed.

Your law firm is still your law firm. Your address didn’t mysteriously change since the last bond request. The basic information we already have about your office shouldn’t need to be hunted down and typed into another form every time a new client needs a bond.

With DARREN™, your firm information can be securely stored and automatically populated for future requests. You fill in what’s specific to the new bond instead of starting from zero every single time.

That may sound like a small thing, but if you’re the person actually doing the work, you know small things have a habit of consuming large chunks of the day.

YOU ALSO SHOULDN’T HAVE TO CHASE US.

This may be the bigger one.

Once you’ve submitted what we need, you shouldn’t have to wonder whether someone saw it. You shouldn’t have to put “check on bond” on tomorrow’s task list because you have no idea when you’ll hear something.

When you submit a completed request through DARREN™, I give you my two-business-hour underwriting decision guarantee. If the bond is approved, it can be issued immediately.

That gives you something extremely useful when you’re managing a busy caseload: an expectation.

You know when you should have an answer, which means you can move on to the next thing instead of keeping the bond floating around in the back of your mind.

AND YES, YOU CAN STILL CALL A HUMAN BEING.

Making the process easier doesn’t mean we’re trying to make ourselves harder to reach.

Sometimes there’s something strange about a case. Sometimes you aren’t sure what information is needed. Sometimes you have a question that doesn’t fit neatly into a box on a screen.

When that happens, you still have people at Probate Bond Pros who know bonds and can help you figure out what needs to happen next.

DARREN™ is there to eliminate the repetitive stuff, not the relationship.

ONE LESS THING TO BABYSIT.

That may be the simplest way to explain what I wanted DARREN™ to become for the people working inside probate law firms.

You already have enough things to remember, enough deadlines to track and enough people waiting for something from you. Getting a bond shouldn’t become another miniature project sitting on your desk.

So the next time an attorney walks into your office, drops a file in front of you and says, “We need a bond on this one,” I want your reaction to be different.

Not Great. Now I have to deal with this.

More like, I know exactly where to send it.

That’s what DARREN™ is there for.

CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A BOND THROUGH DARREN™.

Darren Vermost
The Bond Guy®
Probate Bond Pros