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2025
Hello Divorce partners with iHeartMedia to expand national reach
Hello Divorce announces a partnership with iHeartMedia — the nation's largest audio company — to reach divorcing Americans across the country and drive awareness of affordable, technology-forward legal alternatives.
Read on Inside Radio →Erin Levine on revolutionizing family law with Hello Divorce
Ali Katz joins Erin Levine to explore how Hello Divorce is making the divorce process more accessible and empowering — for everyone, not just those who can afford traditional legal representation.
Listen to episode →This free AI tool wants to make divorce less complicated
Fast Company covers Hallie, Hello Divorce's AI assistant trained on expert-vetted legal content — giving free account holders clear, personalized answers on forms, custody, and child support across all 50 states. "The divorce legal system is absolutely broken," Levine says. "It costs $20,000 per litigant, takes over a year, and fully fails to address the life transition of divorce."
A holistic option that supports you through the entire experience of divorce and its ripple effects.
— Erin Levine, CEOLegalEASE teams up with Hello Divorce to provide innovative legal support for divorce matters
LegalEASE — a leading employee legal benefits provider — partners with Hello Divorce to bring affordable, guided divorce services to employer-sponsored legal plans nationwide, expanding access to justice for working Americans.
Read on LegalEASE →Ep. 227: Hello Divorce — redefining the divorce process with Erin Levine
Kate Anthony and Erin Levine discuss how Hello Divorce helps couples divorce fairly, reduce conflict, and reimagine what comes next — even when they don't agree on everything at the start.
Listen to episode →Hello Divorce — featured video
Watch Hello Divorce's featured video coverage — an inside look at the platform, its mission, and how Erin Levine is reshaping how Americans navigate one of life's most challenging transitions.
Watch on YouTube →Hello Divorce — featured video
Additional video coverage of Hello Divorce — exploring the platform's technology-forward approach to making divorce more affordable, less adversarial, and accessible to all.
Watch on YouTube →2024
Most Innovative Companies — Social Good #6
Fast Company honored Hello Divorce for "turning a usually messy, adversarial, and costly legal burden into a smoother process" — ranking it #6 among the most innovative social-good companies globally. In 2023, Hello Divorce expanded to all 50 states, launched its Marital Settlement Agreement tool, and saved customers nearly $13,000 each on average.
Turning a messy, adversarial, and costly legal burden into a smoother process.
— Fast Company, 2024Advice Line: Reaching new customers — Hello Divorce with Guy Raz
Erin Levine joins Guy Raz's renowned entrepreneurship podcast alongside Leah Solivan of TaskRabbit to discuss how Hello Divorce challenges the deeply ingrained belief that hiring a lawyer is essential for divorce — and how to build trust in an online platform for one of life's most personal transitions. Notably, 70–75% of Hello Divorce's customers are women who initiate the divorce process.
Erin wants to introduce users to an online divorce platform so the legal process isn't any harder than it has to be.
— How I Built This, Guy RazHello Divorce and the future of AI in legal services access
Bloomberg Law covers Hello Divorce's approach to navigating unauthorized-practice challenges, and Erin Levine's conviction that AI will fundamentally reshape how legal help is delivered.
Read article →Ep. 77: Hello Divorce with Erin Levine
Hosts Noam and Leeron sit down with Erin Levine to discuss the process of getting divorced and having a real team behind you — making a daunting process manageable, fair, and less lonely.
Listen to episode →2023
2022
Hello Divorce closes $3.25M oversubscribed seed round to disrupt the broken divorce process
Round led by The Artemis Fund with participation from CEAS Investments, Lightbank, Gaingels, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Sand Hill Angels — to fund national expansion and deeper tooling across the full divorce lifecycle.
Divorce is a transformational life experience and a significant financial event that has long been overlooked by innovation.
— The Artemis Fund2021
Hello Divorce raises $2M so that couples can say 'good-bye' easier
Erin Levine founded the company so couples could access affordable, meaningful legal counsel beyond filling out forms. "Divorce is more than forms," Levine told TechCrunch. "I saw a big hole to use technology and fixed fees to put couples in the driver's seat."
Right now, lawyers are the keeper of information, and clients keep paying until the divorce is done.
— Erin Levine, CEOHello, Erin Levine of Hello Divorce — reimagining the divorce process
Erin explains how Hello Divorce lets lawyers focus on practicing law — not scheduling, filing, and admin — while clients get affordable, transparent access to the help they actually need.
Listen to episode →Unbundled law firms find success offering virtual legal services
"Not everyone is a good candidate for unbundled services, but almost everyone needs lower-cost legal help," says Erin Levine — featured in this ABA Journal piece on the rise of tech-enabled, virtual legal platforms.
Read on ABA Journal →Alternatives to divorce litigation — the collaborative approach explained
Erin Levine breaks down how couples can stay out of court through mediation and Hello Divorce's guided process — covering the full spectrum from collaborative divorce to DIY options.
Read article →Hello Divorce helps separating couples avoid massive debt
"The average cost of a divorce is sky high," Levine told BadCredit.org. "I wanted to offer those services in a way that made financial sense for people" — a full interview on Hello Divorce's flat-fee, TurboTax-style approach.
Read article →2020
Female Disruptors: Three things you need to shake up your industry
An in-depth profile of Erin Levine's journey from running a six-attorney Oakland law firm to founding a VC-backed legal tech platform — and the critics who said making divorce easier would encourage it.
Read article →Ep. 2: Erin Levine, Founder & CEO of Hello Divorce
Clio CEO Jack Newton interviews Erin Levine on navigating legal practice through COVID-19, how cloud technology keeps Hello Divorce running remotely, and the new needs clients are bringing to the platform.
Listen to episode →2019
How technology has changed divorce for the better
Forbes interviews Erin Levine on how affordable online platforms now let divorcing spouses get divorced on their own terms — with expert help only when they need it.
Read on Forbes →How an attorney-turned-entrepreneur is using legal tech to reshape divorce law
Clio's customer spotlight on Erin Levine — timed with the 2019 Reisman Award win recognizing Hello Divorce for legal innovation at the Clio Cloud Conference.
Read on Clio →Erin Levine named to Fastcase 50 — the law's most courageous innovators and leaders
Fastcase's annual honor for the 50 most disruptive thinkers in law named Erin Levine for her work making divorce accessible, affordable, and human — for thousands of Americans.
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