1. Make unanswered calls visible without guessing at demand
A Livingston firm may receive calls from people in the town, elsewhere in Polk County or beyond its immediate municipality. The Census record establishes the town’s population and county relationship, but it cannot tell you how many people call a law office, when they call or whether they are qualified prospects. Start with your own phone system: compare answered calls, voicemail calls, abandoned calls, overflow and after-hours activity. Separate current-client calls from new inquiries before deciding what an answering system must do. Bosseo describes AI Answering as a backstop when the firm does not answer, including after-hours, weekends, holidays and overflow. Its public page states that the system can answer within 20 seconds, handle up to 20 simultaneous calls and provide a transcript and summary after the call.
Recommended approach
Bring a defined review period of phone records to the consultation. Ask Bosseo to map each unanswered-call category to a response path rather than treating every ring as a potential new matter.
