Covid Pivot Leads to Growth Spurt at Wilson Sonsini’s SixFifty

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. Today, we look at one of the few Big Law efforts to automate the law. Sign up to receive this column in your Inbox on Thursday mornings.

Kimball Parker isn’t an employment lawyer, and he never gave much consideration to the rules governing the workplace before the pandemic began rewriting them last year. But the CEO of Wilson Sonsini’s automation subsidiary, SixFifty, says he’s overseeing a growth spurt after pivoting to sell employment law products during the pandemic.

Wilson Sonsini, a ...