After years as an executive signing NDAs, agreements, and employment documents — mine and other companies'. Part of the job is having assurance that every document crossing your desk is in the best interest of the company. Getting that assurance had exactly two options: send it to counsel and wait days at $500 an hour, or rely on experience and a careful read. For most documents, at most companies, it was the careful read.
HR teams live an even sharper version of this. Termination letters, severance agreements, PIPs, investigation reports — documents that can end up as Exhibit A — often go out with nobody available to give them a second look. Not because anyone is careless, but because the second look was always slow and expensive.
DefensibleHR is the tool I wanted in those years: upload a document, and in about a minute get it checked against a maintained library of federal and state rules, each finding pointing at the exact line and citing the statute, regulation, or case behind it — ready for you, or for a faster, cheaper conversation with your counsel. How the rules are built and reviewed, and every approved change to them. It's software, not a law firm, and it doesn't replace legal advice. It replaces the nothing that most documents got before.
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