The Assurance DeskWhat Resolution Economics offers, and what it publishes
Resolution Economics runs the bias audits of automated hiring tools that New York City's Local Law 144 requires in the US. Victoria A. Lipnic, a former Acting Chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, heads the work, with a named team of PhD economists and statisticians. It filed comments on the city's proposed audit rules in January 2023.
Resolution Economics does not publish a price. There is no fee schedule, hourly rate or costing method on its site. It does not say whether it has professional-liability insurance. No case study names a client and the result of an audit.
Resolution Economics sells audits and expert testimony, not compliance software. Its published AI work covers only Local Law 144, with nothing on NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 or Colorado's AI Act in the US. Private-equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has held an investment in it since January 2020. Its site does not say so.
Strengths
- Named, credentialed AI-governance team: Human Capital Strategy Group led by Victoria A. Lipnic, a former EEOC Acting Chair, plus an AI Audit Team of PhD labor economists and statisticians (Gurkan Ay, Ye Zhang, Paul White, Elaine Reardon) and Margo Pave, Esq.
- Direct engagement with the NYC regulator: the AI Audit Team submitted formal comments on the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection's proposed AEDT bias-audit rules (Jan 2023) and was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Law 144 enforcement (Jul 2023).
- 25+ years of employment-discrimination statistical and expert-testimony work underpins the technical bias-audit methodology (selection rates, scoring rates, impact ratios).
- Sells audit and litigation-support services rather than compliance software, so its AEDT bias-audit findings are not tied to steering clients toward an in-house monitoring platform.
Things to check
- No evidence found of NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, or Colorado AI Act advisory work; the firm's public AI-governance materials cover only NYC Local Law 144 AEDT bias audits.
- No published fee schedule, hourly rates, or engagement-cost methodology on the firm's public website.
- The firm is privately held by a private-equity sponsor since January 2020, a financial-ownership structure not disclosed anywhere on the firm's own website.
Common questions
Does Resolution Economics publish its fees?
No. Its AI bias audit, services and about pages carry no prices, hourly rates or fee structure.
Does it advise on ISO 42001 or NIST AI RMF?
Not that we found. Its published AI work covers only bias audits under New York City's Local Law 144 in the US, with nothing on NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 or Colorado's AI Act.
Who leads its AI audit work?
Victoria A. Lipnic, a former Acting Chair and Commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She heads the Human Capital Strategy Group, with a named team of PhD economists and statisticians.
Is it backed by private equity?
Yes. Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, has held an investment in it since January 2020. Resolution Economics does not mention this on its own website.
Evidence for each Resolution Economics score
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Notes behind each thing to check
- No evidence found of NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, or Colorado AI Act advisory work; the firm's public AI-governance materials cover only NYC Local Law 144 AEDT bias audits. (resecon.com's AI Bias Audit page and Insights page describe only NYC AEDT methodology and rulemaking comments, with no NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 or Colorado AI Act content found in the pages reviewed)
- No published fee schedule, hourly rates, or engagement-cost methodology on the firm's public website. (resecon.com's AI Bias Audit, services, and about pages contain no pricing or fee-structure information)
- The firm is privately held by a private-equity sponsor since January 2020, a financial-ownership structure not disclosed anywhere on the firm's own website. (Levine Leichtman Capital Partners' own portfolio page lists Resolution Economics as an active LMM II/SCAP-fund investment since January 2020)
| Criterion | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Help when things go wrong | 25+ years defending employment-discrimination class actions and formal comments filed on NYC's AEDT rulemaking, but no publicly documented AI-specific enforcement defense or incident was found. | |
| Qualifications of the people who do the work | Practice head Victoria Lipnic is a former EEOC Acting Chair; the AI Audit Team holds multiple PhDs in economics and statistics, per resecon.com's Insights page. | |
| What it publishes about fees | No fee schedule, hourly rates, or pricing methodology is published on resecon.com's service, AI-audit, or about pages reviewed. | |
| Knowledge of your sector | Deep specialism in AEDT/Local Law 144 bias-audit statistics since the 2023 rulemaking, but no evidence found of NIST AI RMF or ISO 42001 advisory competence. | |
| Independence from what it sells | Sells audit and expert-testimony services rather than compliance software, so findings are not a funnel toward an in-house tool; a private-equity ownership stake since 2020 is undisclosed on its own site. | |
| Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong | No public disclosure found of professional-liability insurance, indemnification terms, or a named case study documenting a specific audit outcome. |
Sources for Resolution Economics
- Resolution Economics, LLC is listed in New York's official active-entity register as a foreign limited liability company formed in California, DOS ID 4974595, initial filing 8 July 2016. (Active; DOS ID 4974595; jurisdiction California) (data.ny.gov, checked 20 September 2026)
- Resolution Economics offers an independent third-party AI Bias Audit service for Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDTs), covering selection-rate and impact-ratio calculations required under NYC Local Law 144. (Dedicated AI Bias Audit service line) (resecon.com, checked 20 September 2026)
- The firm's Human Capital Strategy Group, which runs its AI/AEDT bias-audit work, is headed by Victoria A. Lipnic, Esq., a former Acting Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Named practice head with federal regulatory background) (resecon.com, checked 20 September 2026)
- Resolution Economics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, with additional US offices including New York, Chicago and Washington DC. (Founded 1998; multi-office US presence) (llcp.com, checked 20 September 2026)
- Private-equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has held an active investment in Resolution Economics since January 2020, made through its LMM II and SCAP funds. (PE-owned since January 2020) (llcp.com, checked 20 September 2026)
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