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Spanish in Texas

Your Texas callers, and what they hear first.

  • More than one in four Texans aged five and over speak Spanish at home (US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, table S1601). The figure counts everyone who does, whatever their English.
  • You switch Spanish on yourself — it is off until you do, and the setting asks you to turn it on only if someone at your firm can follow up with a Spanish-speaking client.
  • With Spanish on, one more sentence follows the fixed recording and AI disclosure, offering to continue in Spanish. A caller who takes that offer then hears the same disclosure again, in full, in Spanish.
  • Texas is a one-party-consent state for recording calls (Texas Penal Code § 16.02). The agent’s opening does not change by state: 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).
  • Rule 7.03(b) of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct restricts a lawyer’s solicitation of a prospective client through lawyer-initiated live or electronically interactive contact, telephone included. Intake Gateway answers the calls made to your line; how a Texas rule bears on the way you use it is a question for you and your counsel.

How to turn on Spanish

Not a message-taker

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

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.

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.

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.

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

What Texas firms ask about Spanish intake.

How many Texans speak Spanish at home?

More than one in four people in Texas aged five and over (US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, table S1601). That counts people who are bilingual as well as those who speak little English, so it measures how many might choose Spanish, not how many need it.

Texas is a one-party-consent state. Why does every call still open with a recording disclosure?

Because the disclosure is the same for every firm and every state, and a firm can’t switch it off. A caller to a Texas firm can be calling from a state where every party has to consent, so the opening is written for all-party-consent recording states. Whether its wording meets your bar’s rules is for you to check.

Does the agent give Texas callers legal advice?

No. Texas defines the practice of law in Government Code § 81.101. The agent never gives legal advice or predicts an outcome: that is a hard rule, not a setting. What a Texas caller tells it goes to your firm for an attorney to review, as the opening disclosure says.

Has the State Bar of Texas said anything about lawyers using AI?

Yes. The State Bar of Texas publishes guidance on lawyers’ use of generative AI; check its current version. We don’t read it for you: whether this product fits your duties under it is for you and your counsel.

What happens to a Spanish-speaking caller if Spanish is off?

With Spanish off, a caller who can’t go on in English hears one sentence in Spanish saying this line can only help them in English and that the office will get their number, and the call ends. No intake is taken in a language they didn’t understand, and you still get the email with their number.

Does Spanish cost more?

No. One plan, $149 a month, covers every answered call, in English and — if you switch it on — Spanish. There is no setup fee, and the plan is month to month.