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Washington, after hours

A fixed disclosure at the start of each call, and no limitation period spoken to callers.

  • Under federal law a call may be recorded when one party consents (18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)), though a state may require more. Each call therefore opens with the same set notice: Every call opens with the same fixed disclosure, sent as the agent’s opening line: the caller is speaking with an AI assistant and not an attorney, the call is recorded and transcribed, staying on the line is consent, and anyone who would rather not be recorded can hang up (the exact words).
  • The general period for a personal-injury action in Washington is three years under RCW 4.16.080(2), running from accrual. Callers are not told a deadline by the agent; which period fits a case is for you and your counsel.
  • Forwarding only after hours is a choice you make with your phone carrier or phone system, not a setting here. You keep answering in the day and your agent takes nights and weekends.
  • The agent never gives legal advice or predicts an outcome: that is a hard rule, not a setting. On fees, the agent says only the exact sentence you write for it, and it never quotes a percentage or estimates what a case is worth.

How to forward your firm’s calls

Not a message-taker

A generic AI receptionist takes a message. This one runs your intake.

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.

Urgent cases offered a live transfer

A fatality, anything involving a city or a public body, an adjuster pushing for a recorded statement, evidence about to disappear: the agent recognizes the signs and offers to put the caller through to you live, in the hours you allow transfers. When it is unsure, it offers the transfer.

Real personal injury qualification

Any kind of injury, not just crashes: what happened and when, injuries and treatment, who is responsible, whether an adjuster has already called. Then the questions that only matter for what actually happened — a police report for a crash, how long the hazard had been there for a fall, who owns the dog, whether they still have the product. Asked as a conversation, not read as a form.

The whole call, step by step

Pricing

One plan. Every answered call included.

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
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Questions

Questions Washington firms raise before forwarding calls.

Can a Washington firm edit the recording notice or turn it off?

No. The notice is identical for every firm and written to the strictest standard, since the agent cannot know which rules cover a given call. It has no editor and no off switch. No. The notice is identical for every firm and written to the strictest standard, since the agent cannot know which rules cover a given call. It has no editor and no off switch. Whether its wording meets your bar’s rules is for you to check.

Does the agent tell a Washington caller how long they have to file?

No. RCW 4.16.080(2) sets a general three-year period for injuries to the person, but exceptions and the start date are for a lawyer to decide, so the agent says nothing on timing. It records when and where the accident happened for your attorney to use.

What if a Washington caller has an emergency overnight?

Urgent transfers go to the transfer number you set, in the days and hours you allow them (all hours by default). To keep nights quiet, allow transfers only in your working hours: outside them the agent connects no one and flags the call for you, with a hot case named in the email’s subject line. Only a call already under way when your hours end may still be put through.

Will an intake be waiting in the inbox when the Washington office opens?

The facts reach you by email after every call; only a call we are confident is spam gets none, and one we merely suspect arrives marked “Possibly spam”. If a matter can wait, the caller hears that the firm will ring back and says when; with a calendar linked, a routine case’s consultation is booked or requested. A guide to after-hours intake

Does it answer Spanish-speaking callers for a Washington firm?

Yes, around the clock, once Spanish is on. It ships off, and the setting suggests enabling it only when someone at the firm can follow up in Spanish. No extra charge. Spanish intake for law firms