Ambrogi reports on this new initiative and tech platform….
The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient of its 2019 Reisman Award for legal innovation.
But even as Hello Divorce has been widely recognized, it has not been widely available, limited until now to helping users with divorces in California. That is about to change, as Levine is embarking on a plan to roll out Hello Divorce sites in every U.S. state. Within a month, she will launch in Colorado, followed not long after by sites in Utah and Texas. While the rollout to other states will be gradual for the first year, she expects that to accelerate by the second year.
Levine is partnering with the company Access to Justice Tech and its founder Joseph Scheiffer to build out the technology required for the expansion. In each state into which she expands, she will be recruiting lawyers, mediators and document assistants to help with cases.
