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Project will capture every employment law in the US
RICHARD WEINER
Technology for Lawyers
Published: March 7, 2025
If you deal in employment law, especially if you work with out-of-state entities, you may want to take a look at SixFifty (https://www.sixfifty.com/), a company that says that it has very single employment law and reg, along with research and analysis, in its database.
SixFifty’s business model helps businesses automate employment law compliance, but the company has just begun a huge project to encode all US employment law as data, with free access for academics.
SixFifty attorneys researched each possible topic, drafted plain language summaries, and labeled and coded the information. In the end, the lawyers wrote 4000 of these documents and created the Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP; https://www.sixfifty.com/employment-law-informatics-project/, sign up here to be put on the waitlist).
Phase 1 covers over 100 employment law topics in every locality in the country that has any employment laws or regs.
ELIP users will be able to search this data by filtering and sorting the information in several fields, or by using an in-house AI tool.
You probably know what I’m going to say about the AI tool: If you want accuracy, create the searches yourself.
“Employment law is a large legal area that is expanding every year,” Kimball Dean Parker, CEO of the company, said. “Our hope is to organize the legal information in a way that makes it easier for academics to study the area and for businesses to understand it.” Users will be able to use the data to look up employment laws across the US.
Parker said that he hopes that offering the data free to academia can have the same kind of effect as other informatics projects like the Comparative Constitutions Project (https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/).
Phase 1 is up and running.
Later phases of the project will be created by further research and writing on employment laws in smaller jurisdictions, and will allow API’s and other kinds of connectivity into the data.
Thanks and another tip of the hat to the great Bob Ambrogi, who specializes in finding these off-the-wall legal tech companies doing great things and then telling all of us about them.