Texas Business ELVES (Employment Law Virtual Education Service) is the TRUSTED one-stop digital shop for employers, HR professionals, and workers in Texas who want to know more about or have questions about the vast number of federal and state labor and employment laws that can come into play for Texas business owners or their workers. We are TRUSTED because EVERY piece of content found on Texas Business ELVES has been reviewed and vetted by our Chief Elf Officer.
What is Texas Business ELVES?
Who is the Chief Elf Officer (CEO)?
Our Chief Elf Officer - a.k.a. CEO - is a practicing Texas attorney who is Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (TBLS). Board Certified attorneys are, simply put, the “best of the best.” Out of more than 120,000 licensed Texas attorneys, fewer than 500 who work in private law practice are Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law. Besides being Board Certified, our CEO has over 15 years’ experience as a labor and employment attorney representing employers in Texas and nationwide.
What Texas Business ELVES Is NOT:
Texas Business ELVES is NOT a law firm!
Rather, we are a subscription-based website with free and paid membership levels that aggregates outside resources with original content as an educational and informational tool about labor and employment law.
Texas Business ELVES is NOT legal advice!
Use of our website does NOT create an attorney-client relationship and does NOT subject such use or any search terms used in navigating the website to the protections of attorney-client privilege.
Texas Business ELVES is NOT a substitute for hiring an attorney!
Every situation implicating labor and employment law must be carefully evaluated based on its own specific circumstances and facts. Our website is geared toward giving members enough basic understanding to better use attorneys and ask the right questions, making the hiring of legal counsel more cost-efficient.
Who Can Benefit from Using Texas Business ELVES?
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Texas Business ELVES was designed with Texas businesses - especially small and mid-size businesses - in mind. These businesses especially can’t afford to pay hourly rates of a few hundred dollars every time they have an employment law question but are unsure what they can and cannot trust from an Internet search.
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Texas Business ELVES is an EDUCATIONAL tool, first and foremost. And that includes serving as a useful means for young entrepreneurs, HR professionals in the making, and aspiring labor and employment attorneys at the collegiate and graduate school levels. To that end, Texas Business ELVES offers discounted annual paid memberships for students.
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Texas Business ELVES provides labor and employment information and education on an equal basis. Workers are as free to use our website to learn about their rights as employers are to learn about their legal responsibilities and risks. In fact, making our website affordable for workers is a big reason we offer monthly paid subscriptions in addition to annual subscriptions.
Why ELVES and Not Gen AI?
No Hallucinations:
We’ve all seen the news stories and online posts about Generative AI providing inaccurate, incomplete, or just plain made-up information. Citing to court cases that don’t even exist. Drafting maps of Europe using incorrect names for most of the countries. Suggesting table salt (sodium chloride) can be replaced by a toxic chemical (sodium bromide). Generative AI can be useful for lots of things, but when the legal compliance of your business is at stake, you need answers from a TRUSTWORTHY source.
No Prompting Errors:
To be fair, Generative AI at this stage is very dependent on users providing very clear and specific prompts for it to return accurate and useful answers. And if the prompt is bad… garbage in, garbage out. But most non-lawyers are not going to know enough about the nuances of employment law to be able to craft good Generative AI prompts. With Texas Business ELVES, we strive to create an easily searchable resource that doesn’t depend on users phrasing their search in “just the right way.”
Online Advertising (Paid Annual Subscribers):
A little bonus we provide annual subscribers as thanks for their business is a listing on our Paid Annual Subscribers page, which can be viewed by any subscriber (paid or free). This opportunity to be listed is only available to businesses - not individuals - and provides one more online avenue to get your company’s name out there in public.
Confidentiality:
The way that many Generative AI large language models (LLMs) work is that each time information is entered into the LLM by a user, the LLM maintains a copy of that information to help it improve and tailor future results. This can cause serious problems for a user that needs to keep information confidential, and every business has at least some information that is proprietary and needs to stay out of the public domain. With Texas Business ELVES, you just type in simple search terms and need not provide your secrets.
Contact our ELVES
If you have questions about our website, suggestions for resources or improvements you’d like to see, or notice an error in the operation of the website (links do go bad sometimes) or our content (we try to keep everything up to date, but nobody’s perfect), please feel free to email us by filling out the information below, and we will be in touch as soon as we can. We look forward to hearing from you.