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Today we released what will hopefully be the first of many employment contracts on LexPublica. Why “many”? Because provinces and states have laws and regulations that affect how an employment contract in that particular jurisdiction needs to be written. Additionally, contracts could be customized for certain industries, positions, etc. The contract we released today is for British Columbia.

We started with BC because that’s where we’re located and it’s the jurisdiction Martin knows best. In the next couple of weeks we’ll release a generic Canadian employment agreement that can serve as a starting point for localization to other provinces and territories. When we do that, we hope Canadian employment lawyers will jump in to help localize versions for their jurisdiction.

If you’re such a lawyer, drop us a line or leave a comment and we’ll let you know when the generic text is ready. Better yet, sign up for the contributor newsletter so you’ll be the first to know about big projects like this.

Also, if you’re an American employment lawyer and you’d like to help us develop a generic U.S. employment contract template others could use to localize for different states, let us know.

This is our first big project, and we’re looking forward to working with all sorts of new people. If you know an employment lawyer, please point them this way.

Agree2 is a service that lets users fill out, sign and store agreements online, and Zak has uploaded the LexPublica Simple Mutual Confidentiality Agreement over there. Pelle, the developer of Agree2, will be adding the rest of our contracts soon. It’s a pretty neat service!