Making the law accessible to everyone
OpenLaws is the structured legal data infrastructure that LegalTech and AI companies build on. OpenLaws collects, structures, and maintains up-to-date U.S. statutes and regulations across all 50 states and makes them available to any company building legal or regulatory products. We also provide data to legal aid organizations and researchers.
About OpenLaws
U.S. law is still stuck behind paywalls and buried in PDFs. Legal publishers control access to comprehensive U.S. law and their terms prohibit building products on it. Outside their paywalls, statutes and regulations are scattered across 163 underfunded government websites, often published only as low quality PDFs. OpenLaws fixes that.
OpenLaws is the structured legal data infrastructure that LegalTech and AI companies build on. We collect, structure, and maintain U.S. statutes and regulations across all 53 jurisdictions (federal, 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico) and deliver them via API and bulk data. We are not an AI company. We are the data layer that legal AI and compliance teams rely on to stay accurate, current, and trustworthy.
OpenLaws is a Public Benefit Corporation. Access to the law shouldn't depend on whether you can afford a subscription. Legal aid organizations, LSC-funded programs, access to justice initiatives, academic researchers, and journalists can access OpenLaws data, as well, because the same infrastructure that powers commercial legal products should also power the organizations working to make the law accessible to everyone.
Jurisdictions covered across the United States
Authoritative sources harvested directly
Incorporated in Delaware
Meet our leadership team
The people building the structured legal data infrastructure behind OpenLaws.
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John Phamvan
Co-founder & CEO
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Pearl Chen
Co-founder & COO
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Javier Feldman
Founding Engineer
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Bill Leung
Director of Delivery
Have custom needs?
We can provide tailored solutions for new authoritative sources, government PDFs, and administrative law. Reach out with your legal data challenges. We have seen every government data challenge, and this is all we do!
Frequently Asked Questions
The essentials on what OpenLaws is, what we cover, and how to build on it. Need something specific? Get in touch.
OpenLaws is the structured legal data infrastructure that LegalTech and AI companies build on. 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're also not a legal research company. We are the data layer that legal AI and compliance teams rely on to stay accurate, current, and trustworthy.
All 53 U.S. jurisdictions: federal, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. We harvest directly from 163 authoritative government sources, covering statutes, regulations, constitutions, and court rules.
You can integrate with LLMs or build product features against our production-ready API. Or you can load the full legal corpus into your own systems with OpenLaws bulk data via AWS S3.
We harvest directly from government sources and maintain the data continuously. Federal law updates weekly; about 15 states (including California, Delaware, Florida, New York, and Texas) update monthly; the rest update quarterly.
No. OpenLaws Public Benefit Corporation is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. We provide the underlying legal data; what you build on it is up to you.