Intake Gateway answers your firm’s line when you can’t, takes a divorce call once you switch family law on, and emails you the facts after every call except one we are confident is spam.
Check the AI’s work: each intake email gives its summary and what the caller told it, and the call’s recording and full transcript are in your dashboard. AI intake and the ethics rules
Call the number we give you from your own phone and hear the agent take an intake — up to 15 minutes of test calls, before you add a card. First month free: a 30-day free trial, every answered call included, one trial per firm. Card on file, nothing charged before day 31. No setup fee. Month to month. US firms, calls in English and — if you switch it on — Spanish.
Start with nights and weekends. Forward your line only after hours, only the calls you don’t answer, or every call — a choice you make with your phone carrier or phone system, not a setting here, and can change at any time.
Hear our agent take an intake on the demo line, 75 seconds
Recorded on our demo line: our AI agent answering an automated test caller who plays an invented person. It starts after the opening disclosure every call begins with.
From the recording:
Caller (invented)
I was rear-ended Tuesday while stopped at a red light on Park Street in Madison. The insurance adjuster called this morning asking for a recorded statement and quick settlement, and that worries me.
Agent
That would worry anyone. Were you hurt in the crash?
Caller (invented)
Yes. I went to the ER that night; they said it was soft tissue, but my neck still hurts and I can’t turn my head properly.
Read the whole recording (machine transcript, unedited)
Caller (invented): I was rear-ended Tuesday while stopped at a red light on Park Street in Madison. The insurance adjuster called this morning asking for a recorded statement and quick settlement, and that worries me.
Agent: That would worry anyone. Were you hurt in the crash?
Caller (invented): Yes. I went to the ER that night; they said it was soft tissue, but my neck still hurts and I can’t turn my head properly.
Agent: And are you working with another attorney on this already?
Caller (invented): No, I haven’t talked to any lawyer yet.
Agent: Thank you for telling me that -- I'm going to take this down for the office. Before we get into the details, I need to take a couple of names for our records. Can I start with your full name?
Caller (invented): Dana Whitfield.
Agent: Dana Whitefield. And do you know the name of the other driver?
Caller (invented): It’s Dana Whitfield—W-h-i-t-f-i-e-l-d. The other driver was Ray Kessler.
Agent: Dana Whitfield, W-H-I-T-F-I-E-L-D, and the other driver, Ray Kessler. Is that right?
The spouse’s name, a safe number and the court date, never the marriage itself.
A divorce call is part of the family law intake, which is off until you switch it on. Off, someone calling about a divorce or a separation leaves a message for you.
On, it takes the call from the spouse or from someone calling for a family member, and asks whether they already have a lawyer on this. The other spouse’s lawyer is not theirs.
It takes the caller’s name and their spouse’s, reads each back, and runs your conflict check on both before it asks about the divorce.
When it is not safe to call back on that number, it asks for another number that is, or a good time to call, and asks for no email.
It asks whether children under 18 are involved and how many, never their names, and the state and county where the caller lives.
It asks whether a case is already open in court, the next hearing date and which court, and whether a custody, support or protective order is already in place.
In Spanish, “me quiero divorciar” is taken the same way.
It never asks about abuse or what the spouse did. If the caller says, it says it is sorry, notes it in a few plain words and asks nothing more.
Someone hurt in an accident who only mentions a divorce is never taken this way: they get the injury intake.
A divorce with a hearing today, tomorrow or the day after, a need for a protective order, or a child threatened or not returned is urgent: within the firm's transfer hours the caller is offered a live transfer.
A divorce that is not urgent closes like any other case: a callback promised, or with a calendar connected a consultation booked or requested.
It never says how property is divided, who will get custody, what support will be, whether to move out or take the children, or any deadline.
A generic AI receptionist takes a message. This one runs your intake.
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A callback promised, or a consultation booked or requested
Every routine caller is told the office will call them back, and gives the time that suits them. Connect a calendar and the agent books an ordinary case's consultation instead, from your real availability, while the caller is still on the phone, or requests one where your calendar asks you to confirm.
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You hear every call
The recording, the transcript, a summary and the structured intake for every call are in your dashboard. Download what you need for your file: the recording, transcript, summary and intake are removed on a fixed schedule measured from each call.
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The caller lands in Clio, if you use Clio
Connect Clio and the caller is added there as a contact after the call — name, phone, email and address, nothing re-typed. The full intake arrives by email and in your dashboard, with Clio or without — the product works either way.
One plan, $149 a month, every answered call included. Fair use is a guide of up to 100 answered calls a month for one firm’s own line, not a cap: nothing meters your calls or cuts them off at that number. If you are consistently and substantially above it, we may get in touch to agree terms that fit that volume, and if we cannot agree any, the Terms of Service let either side end the plan.
Intake Gateway
$149 / month
Every answered call included — nothing is metered or billed per call
24/7 intake in English, and in Spanish if you switch it on
Urgent cases are offered a live transfer in your hours; others get a callback, or a booked or requested consultation for an ordinary case once a calendar is connected
An email with the summary and intake after every call except one we are confident is spam