Our Services
Our purpose is to make your bankruptcy law practice more efficient, more productive, and more profitable, by removing office distractions and saving you time.
Our purpose is to make your bankruptcy law practice more efficient, more productive, and more profitable, by removing office distractions and saving you time.
Using the virtual bankruptcy paralegal services of YourLegalMeans to professionally prepare your Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions, and to perform necessary due diligence, frees you up to work on other projects, grow your client base, expand your practice into other areas of law, and so much more!
Not only will your time be freed up for these other interests, but you will simultaneously be generating more revenue than ever before!
Furthermore, our bankruptcy processing services ease or eliminate your staff’s heavy workload, freeing them up to work on other assignments as well.
Our bankruptcy petition
preparation services include
- Prior bankruptcy searches for each debtor to verify eligibility to file
- Verifying debtor(s) have satisfied the credit counseling requirement
- Reviewing the completed Client Intake Forms (CIF) for missing information
- Working with debtor(s) to obtain missing information
- Reviewing and compiling income paystubs and other sources of income
- Zillow® or other real property valuation (and documentation provided)
- Land records ownership search
- Civil and criminal records search
- Lien search
- Prior address search
- Outstanding fines and judgments search
- Drafting of petition with all schedules, including the Means Test (22a / 22c)
- Kelley Blue Book® or N.A.D.A.® automobile valuation
- Preparing the Statement of Financial Affairs (SOFA) and additional forms
- Preparing additional local forms to comply with local court rules
- Preparing Chapter 13 plans
- Completed petition submitted for review and feedback
- Summary of petition drafted detailing potential problems or questions
- Revisions to the original draft of the petition as per attorney instructions
- Electronic filing of the petition
- Sending a copy of the completed and filed petition to the client
- More!
You are the attorney of record on all bankruptcy petitions that we prepare for you. Each petition we prepare includes the name and bar number of the representing attorney and the law firm information.
Our company name does not appear anywhere on the petition. We simply prepare the petition, just as if we were working in your office as one of your staff.
All client and attorney information are held in strictest confidence. Click Here to see our Privacy Policy.
The tables below illustrate the typical amount of time spent per debtor WITHOUT using YourLegalMeans vs. USING YourLegalMeans.
| Services | Staff Time | Your Time |
|---|---|---|
| Client Intake Interview | 30 Min | 15 Min |
| Gathering Documents | 1 Hour | 15 Min |
| Reviewing Documents | 30 minutes | 0 |
| Drafting Petition | 4 Hours | 0 |
| Client Phone Calls | 2-5 Hours | 1 Hour |
| Review Drafted Petition | 0 | 30 Min |
| 341 Meeting | 0 | 30 Min |
| TOTAL | 8-10 Hours | 2 Hour 30 Min |
| Services | Staff Time | Your Time |
|---|---|---|
| Client Intake Interview | 30 Min | 15 Min |
| Gathering Documents | 0 | 0 |
| Reviewing Documents | 0 | 0 |
| Drafting Petition | 0 | 0 |
| Client Phone Calls | 0 | 0 |
| Review Drafted Petition | 0 | 30 Min |
| 341 Meeting | 0 | 30 Min |
| TOTAL | 30 Min | 1 Hour 15 Min |
As demonstrated above, our bankruptcy expertise saves you an entire workday of time per client. With just 5 bankruptcy clients per month, this equates to an entire week of time savings. Full-time bankruptcy law firms save even more.
We save our bankruptcy attorney clients an average of 8-10 hours of office time associated with each bankruptcy petition, resulting in an increase in profits per case by an average of 45%, and a reduction of debtor phone calls to their law firm by up to 76%!