Recode Decode: Attorney Laura Wasser

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Divorce attorney Laura Wasser talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting It's Over Easy, an online platform to help people who are getting divorced in New York and California. In this episode: Why Wasser launched It's Over Easy; the other services it provides besides legal help; why Wasser isn't afraid of losing her $850/hour clients; how she hopes to expand to more states this year; why some locations may require "doing an Uber"; why the legal world has been slow to embrace the internet; can lawyers and judges be completely replaced?; and advice for anyone getting divorced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.
0:06.0	You're saying goodbye to gas stations and how low to open roads.
0:09.0	With the growing network of public charging stations, you'll be able to charge your EV while you shop, work, or do whatever you want to be doing with your time.
0:17.0	Chevy is making EVs for everyone, everywhere. Go to chevrelay.com slash electric to learn more.
0:24.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:32.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.
0:42.0	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:48.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:52.0	You may know me as someone with advice for any Star Wars fan in an unhappy marriage.
0:56.0	May your divorce be with you, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:02.0	Today in the red chair is Laura Wasser, a very famous divorce attorney who has become unusually famous for someone in her line of work.
1:09.0	That's because she has worked with some of the biggest Hollywood stars in their divorces.
1:14.0	We can talk about that in a minute, Laura. Welcome to Recode Decode.
1:17.0	Thank you for having me.
1:18.0	I know it seems unusually I might have a divorce attorney. I'm not looking divorce. I have been divorced on my show, but you were moving into tech space, correct?
1:26.0	Slowly.
1:27.0	Crawling, yes.
1:28.0	As over 50s I want to do in the tech world.
1:31.0	The legal profession has been slow, too.
1:34.0	We have been very slow.
1:35.0	We have been using various documents and things like that.
1:39.0	We're going to talk about that and more with Laura.
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