Asia Scarlett-Jones: What Your Family Lawyer Can and Can't Do

When a lawyer cries with you, it feels caring. Asia Scarlett-Jones argues it is the opposite of what you are paying for. Her job, she says, is to take everything you feel and translate it into something a court can actually act on. Asia Scarlett-Jones is a matrimonial and family law attorney who now runs her own firm. Before that she worked as a court attorney, on the judge's side of the bench, conferencing cases and helping draft decisions, and earlier she did public-defense work at Legal Ai...