The training I wish I'd had.
I'm Coti. I've spent years working in the U.S. market, and my first role was as an intake handler. It was the best training I could have asked for. It taught me how to actually listen, how to make someone feel like they were in good hands from the first minute of the call, and how to stay calm when someone was overwhelmed and scared. But feeling heard isn't the point on its own, what people actually need in that moment is to know they're about to be represented by an attorney who's going to fight for them. Intake is where that starts.
But I also felt the gap firsthand. I'm from South America, and every day I ran into something I didn't grow up knowing, an insurance company I'd never heard of, a pharmacy chain, how ZIP codes work, how U.S. auto or health insurance is even structured. Nobody explains that stuff. You just absorb it slowly, awkwardly, over years. Eventually I knew enough that I started training every new intake hire that came through the door, and that's where I learned what actually helps: not legal knowledge, but understanding the environment well enough to sound like part of it instead of a robot reading a script.
That's the whole idea behind Legal Talent Foundry. Give people that training before they ever take a call, so the stress and awkward learning curve is already behind them. I can teach someone how to do this job. What I can't teach is the drive, the attentiveness, the person underneath it. That part I have to find. So I still recruit, train, and run every part of this myself, because I care about getting it right, not about getting big.