Somebody with a legal problem doesn't leave a voicemail and wait patiently. They work down the list until a human picks up. Local Linq makes sure that's your firm.
Built in Fort Worth. (817) 518-8268 is our live AI — call it and hear what your callers would hear.
This is the thing that makes your phone different from a plumber's. Your caller is anxious, and anxiety doesn't wait — it dials the next number.
Most firms track billable hours obsessively and have never once measured the calls that never became files.
Say your firm takes 40 intake calls a month and gets to twenty-eight.
Say one in six of those twelve missed calls would have signed.
That's two matters a month, at say $6,000 in fees.
And $6,000 is deliberately conservative. One PI case can be worth more than everything else on this page combined.
Local Linq answers, captures the matter properly, and books the consult — so the anxious caller stops calling firms.
What you take, what you don't, and where you're licensed. A caller with a matter you don't handle gets a clean answer instead of a week of phone tag.
Names, dates, opposing party, what happened, how to reach them. Structured and consistent, every time, which is more than most front desks manage at 4:55pm on a Friday.
On your calendar during the call, while they're still motivated. The gap between the call and the consult is where firms lose clients.
The solicitors, the wrong practice area, the person who wants free advice. You spend your time on matters that could become files.
An arrest, a filing deadline, a fresh accident — those reach you immediately. A general question waits until morning.
This one matters. It captures, routes, and schedules. It never opines on a matter, never predicts an outcome, and never says anything that could be mistaken for counsel.
Worth being straight about what each option actually gets you.
| Option | What it costs | What it can't do |
|---|---|---|
| Receptionist or intake staff | $3,200+ a month, plus turnover | Covers business hours only — and the accident, the arrest, and the panicked 9pm call all happen outside them. Also the first to go when things get tight. |
| Answering service | Per-call, and it adds up | A stranger with a message pad who can't tell a PI case from a parking ticket, can't answer what you charge, and can't book. You get a callback list that's already cold. |
| Voicemail | $0 | For a legal caller this is the same as being closed. They are not leaving a message — they are dialing the next firm on the results page. |
| Local Linq | A fraction of an intake hire | Answers around the clock, captures the matter, books the consult, flags the urgent ones. Nights, weekends, and the Sunday evening when the accident actually happened. |
Agreed, and it doesn't. It's built to do intake only: identify the practice area, capture what happened, schedule the consultation, and route urgency. It's explicitly instructed never to assess a matter, never to predict an outcome, and never to say anything that resembles counsel. When a caller pushes for an opinion, it says that's a question for the attorney and books the time.
Fair question and you should ask it of any intake vendor. Practically, this is the same posture as any third-party intake service or answering service your firm might already use — the difference is that call records land in your systems rather than sitting on a call center's notepad. If your bar's rules or your malpractice carrier have specific requirements around third-party intake, tell me what they are and I'll build to them or tell you honestly if I can't.
Keep them. They're better than any AI at the consultation itself. What they can't do is answer at 9pm on a Saturday when somebody's just been arrested, or pick up the second line when two calls come in at once. Most firms run us for after-hours and overflow only.
They expect to be taken seriously and told what happens next. In practice the thing that makes a caller feel dismissed isn't a professional voice handling their intake — it's ringing out to voicemail at the worst moment of their year.
Practice areas, what you decline, consultation fees, how you want matters captured, and what counts as urgent.
Live in about a week. You call it and tell us what to change before a client ever hears it.
Everything, or only after-hours and overflow. Most firms start with after-hours.
To whichever firm happened to pick up first.
I'm Tyler. I build these out of Fort Worth. Law firms have the highest cost per missed call of anyone I work with — a single intake can be worth more than a year of what most of my clients pay me. And legal callers are the least likely of anybody to leave a message. If you want to hear what your firm's intake would sound like, I'll build a demo before you pay me anything.
Starts at $500/month, all in. No setup fee. Exact price depends on call volume and how much you want it to handle.
No long-term contract. Month to month. Cancel whenever you want.
Setup included. We build and train it for you.
Live in under a week. Thirty minutes of your time to get started.
Local DFW support. You're calling me, not a ticket queue.
Takes about thirty seconds. I'll come back to you with what I'd actually build, and what it would cost — no pitch deck.
Call the line below and talk to our AI yourself — it's live right now, not a recording. Try to get it to give you legal advice, actually. That's the fastest way to see how it's built. Or tell me about your firm and I'll load one with your practice areas.
(817) 518-8268