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Divorce lawyers lack incentives to resolve cases due to hourly billing

Erin Levine · Advice Line: Reaching New Customers · Oct 3, 2024 · at 4:53

Erin Levine, founder of Hello Divorce and a former family law attorney for 15 years, explains why traditional divorce legal structures fail consumers.

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“Lawyers get paid by the hour, and it creates literally no incentive for us to add efficiencies or to work towards a resolution. The longer the divorce goes, the more we get paid.”

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