1. Start with Lake City’s actual service boundary
That geographic relationship matters when you design the intake: a visitor may identify Lake City, a county, another Minnesota community or a location outside the firm’s service area. The firm should decide whether location is an early screening question, a routing field, or information collected for attorney review.
Recommended approach
List the locations your firm actually evaluates, then decide what happens when a visitor names a place outside that boundary. Make the result visible to the person reviewing the intake rather than relying on an unstated assumption. A consultation can map Lake City, Goodhue County and Wabasha County coverage to the firm’s own eligibility rules.
