Robert Ambrogi Blog
SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.
Phase 1 covers over 100 employment law topics across every state and major locality in the country, it said.
According to Kimball Dean Parker, chief executive officer, SixFifty attorneys researched each topic, drafted plain-language summaries, and labeled and coded the entries. Users can search the data, which currently includes more than 4,000 unique summaries, by:
- filtering and sorting the information by a variety of fields, or
- using a generative-AI powered search to query the data.
“Employment law is a large legal area that is expanding every year,” Parker 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.”
Parker said that SixFifty is providing access to ELIP for free to legal academic institutions in hopes that it will have a similar academic impact as other informatics projects like the Comparative Constitutions Project.
“Employment law affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States,” he said. “It is an area of law that warrants rigorous study and examination, and we want our dataset to help illuminate the topic.”
Data from ELIP enables research functionality within SixFifty, allowing users to look up employment laws throughout the nation.
Later phases of the project will expand the dataset into more areas of employment law, covering smaller localities, and allow for APIs and other connectors into the information.