Legal Innovation Needs Legal Data
Comprehensive, up-to-date U.S. law data for LegalTech, RegTech, and AI applications.
Trusted by legal technology and regulatory compliance companies across the world
Nationwide Law Coverage
Along with the D.C. and Puerto Rico
Sections of law tracked and regularly updated
Coverage of federal statutes and regulations
“The baton taken by next generation data law feed providers OpenLaws with statutes, code, and regulations and Free Law with caselaw ensures the ‘pay it forward’ entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well for the next wave of legal tech start-ups, savvy law firms building their own AI tech solutions, and mission-driven non-profits. Run with it!”
“Using CourtListener and OpenLaws APIs to check cites/statutes and head off hallucination on them at the pass is the fundamental where you’re generating work product that references cases/statutes, etc.”
Frequently Asked Questions
OpenLaws was incorporated in 2022 as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. Our legal data has been used in production since 2021.
OpenLaws is the structured legal data infrastructure that LegalTech and AI companies build on. Compliance and legal-AI teams rely on it to stay accurate, current, and trustworthy. Our infrastructure is composed of commercially licensable legal data APIs, an upcoming MCP, and bulk data products.
OpenLaws PBC is a small, experienced team of civic technologists. We collect, structure, and maintain U.S. statutes and regulations and deliver them via API and bulk data. We are not an AI company. We built the OpenLaws dataset to make legal data accessible to everyone.
OpenLaws curates legal datasets for startups, highly regulated companies, and law firms that need up-to-date U.S. statutes and regulations. We are the underlying legal data infrastructure for the most innovative LegalTech and RegTech startups. Additionally, we build tools for regulatory compliance professionals and attorneys.
We continuously collect laws from their authoritative government sources, standardize them, and publish them as structured data. Federal law updates weekly; states update monthly or quarterly. We strive for transparency: OpenLaws data coverage and update cadence.
OpenLaws covers codified U.S. primary law: statutes, regulations, constitutions, and court rules. For a plain-English primer on the types of primary law and where to find current, reliable text, read A Practical Guide to the Four Types of Primary Law →.
Absolutely! We built our APIs because we could not find a reliable, structured source of U.S. primary law data that was developer-friendly. OpenLaws licensing is specifically tailored to allow for building products and workflows.