1. Use Landover’s geography to define the intake boundary
Your firm may describe its service area as Landover, Prince George’s County, Maryland, or a broader area. Those labels are not interchangeable. Landover is a CDP within Prince George’s County, and the Census estimate applies to that CDP—not to every household, individual, municipality, or metropolitan area around it. Intake Coach should therefore be configured around the geographic questions your firm actually asks. A caller’s location can affect whether the firm accepts the matter, routes it elsewhere, or escalates it for attorney review. The relevant test is not how many people live in Landover; it is whether your intake team consistently records and acts on location information when it matters.
Recommended approach
Write a location rule for intake: what the representative asks, what counts as serviceable, who handles an out-of-area inquiry, and when an attorney must decide. Review scored calls for missing or ambiguous location details rather than assuming the Census population indicates lead volume.
