ABOUT US
An HR Compliance Software Company Built onLittler's Legal Expertise
HR professionals, attorneys, and general counsel at organizations across all 50 states save time and money with our self-service employment law compliance software.
ComplianceHR is a Littler Mendelson company built on the firm’s unmatched employment law expertise. Workforce classification, employee handbook and policy management, employment law research, compliant document generation, and more are all supported within our fully-integrated, end-to-end platform.
OUR HISTORY
A Decade in the Making
How the country's largest employment law firm turned its expertise into software every HR team can use.
In 2015, Littler's attorneys recognized a gap they saw play out in matters every day: the depth of employment law expertise inside the firm had no practical path to the HR professionals and in-house counsel who needed it in real time. With limited budget for outside counsel spend,employers were left relying on inconsistent guidance and fragmented research, exposing them to compliance risk on decisions they had to make routinely
The answer was to build something new. On February 2, 2015, Littler launched ComplianceHR, starting with Navigator Independent Contractor, a self-service tool for determining contractor classification status. By 2016, the Navigator Suite had been named a Top 10 HR Product by Human Resource Executive®.
What started as a single classification tool grew into a full compliance platform. Over the next decade, ComplianceHR expanded across the full employee lifecycle, adding overtime classification, 50-state employee handbooks, state-specific employment documents, and multi-jurisdictional legal research. Each release answered the same question the firm started with: how do we get expert employment law guidance into the hands of the people making the decision, in the moment they need it?
In May 2025, Littler completed its full acquisition of ComplianceHR and became its sole owner. The platform draws directly and continuously from the firm's legal intelligence across every federal, state, and local jurisdiction in the country.
Ten years after launch, more than 16,000 U.S.-based organizations rely on ComplianceHR to manage employment law. The mission hasn't changed since day one: deliver expert employment law guidance that's accessible, actionable, and defensible to every organization that needs it.
What "Backed by Littler" Means in Practice
Littler’s ownership is what makes ComplianceHR stand out from the competition.
With more than 1,800 attorneys representing management in over 100 offices across every U.S. jurisdiction and around the globe, Littler Mendelson is the world’s largest labor and employment law practice. The software our HR compliance company provides gives you access to the ongoing and structurally integrated legal intelligence of an organization that has been litigating, mediating, and advising on U.S. employment law for more than 80 years.
Guidance is expert-authored, not curated or aggregated.
Our software’s employment law guidance is never derived from secondary sources or licensed from third-party legal data providers. When employment law changes, updates come from Littler's knowledge management team, drawing directly on the firm's practicing attorneys, not from a monitoring alert that triggers a delayed review cycle.
Practicing attorneys write the content.
The attorneys who author ComplianceHR’s guidance aren’t consultants or reviewers brought in to vet a content library. They’re in-house experts who actively litigate employment cases. They are personally responsible for tracking regulatory change in the states where those cases originate and for advising their clients on the exact questions that the platform answers for its users.
Classifications are built on case law.
ComplianceHR draws from a proprietary engine of more than 10,000 reported court decisions, Department of Labor opinion letters, and regulatory updates. These are more than mere benchmarks or regulatory summaries. They are the body of case law that determines how classification decisions are made and challenged in court. Because the people responsible for authoring it are the attorneys who litigate these cases, the platform’s guidance always reflects their outcomes.
Changes are based on continuous intelligence.
Employment law isn't updated on a schedule. Federal agencies issue guidance. State legislatures pass new leave, wage, and classification laws. Local jurisdictions add requirements that conflict with state rules. Littler’s attorneys track changes at every level across all 50 states and update ComplianceHR’s content accordingly. You learn about changes before you have to comply, not after violations occur.
The Values We Stand For
Employment law expertise was once contained within legal firms. Our HR compliance platform was built to extend that expertise beyond the firm's walls, making Littler's knowledge accessible for every organization that needs it for routine workforce decisions.
Expert Access without Expert Rates
The employment law expertise that determines whether a classification holds up, whether a policy complies, or whether a decision is defensible has always existed. ComplianceHR puts that same expertise on tap for routine workforce decisions, at a fraction of the cost.
Defensible by Construction
Compliance guidance must be documented. Compliance HR’s classification reports, policy assessments, and research responses all include reference to the applicable law, risk scoring, and documented rationale. That record is built and housed within the system before anyone requests it.
Continuous Updates and Improvement
Employment law changes as needed, and so does ComplianceHR’s content. Littler’s attorneys track regulatory change across all 50 states in real time and respond with frequent platform updates. Organizations learn about new requirements before compliance is required, not after it’s too late to prevent fines and other regulatory actions.
Built from the Employer’s Perspective
Littler has represented management in employment matters for more than 80 years. We already know the questions you need to answer, the risks you want to surface, and the outcomes you're working toward. That perspective is embedded in every click.
OUR TEAM
The People Behind the Platform
ComplianceHR's team brings decades of experience in SaaS, human capital management, and compliance to our compliance HR company. The people who develop and run our platform understand both how software should work and what the law requires.
Kimball Norup
Chief Executive Officer
Joe Panza
VP of Product Management & Operations
Claire Olinzock
Chief Systems Architect
Michael Worth
VP of Sales
Samantha Greenman
Director of Client Success
Carolyn Kick
Marketing Manager
By the Numbers: The Value of Certainty
Join thousands of organizations that have replaced legal guesswork with data-driven, expert-backed compliance.
Cost Reduction
Achieve faster results at a fraction of the cost of traditional legal fees.
Legal Sources
Powered by a comprehensive engine of 10,000+ cases and federal & state regulations.
Minutes Average
Generate a legally defensible overtime or IC compliance risk assessment, compared to 7-8 hours with traditional methods.
Companies
Over the last decade, we've supported more than 16,000 companies' HR compliance strategies.
States Covered
Compliant in all U.S. federal, state and municipality jurisdictions.
See how HR leaders are using ComplianceHR to replace fragmented guidance with a single, expert-verified source of truth across all 50 states.
Testimonials
Why Users Love ComplianceHR
ComplianceHR replaces the uncertainty of fragmented research with answers you can act on and defend. Here’s what some of our clients have experienced.
"ComplianceHR is the first to combine that technology with subject-matter expertise for these [critical] assessments. It’s a very practical tool. In many cases, it can provide employers with legal evaluations far more cheaply and quickly than a lawyer could.”
“As a company committed to “getting it right,” ComplianceHR has helped us quickly and efficiently arrive at informed decisions on overtime exemption eligibility. In addition to providing us with the expert guidance we need, the tool is highly educational and has improved our overall approach to compliance and helped us recognize easy opportunities to get more productivity from our management structure.”
“Because of the way that ComplianceHR has streamlined fact gathering and delivered the results, our time spent with outside professionals has also become more streamlined, strategic, and, frankly, less expensive. The tool definitely saved us money.”
