The part of this job you were never meant to do alone.
A room of verified attorneys who tell each other the truth — about what to charge, how that court really runs, who to hire, and what it actually costs to keep the doors open. Everything nobody wrote down.
Or start with the email
One email a week on the business of running a practice. No card, no pitch, unsubscribe whenever.
- Free to every member
- 3Courts, agencies, vendors
- Practice rooms
- 21Each with a forms shelf
- Continuing education
- CLEMonthly, accredited by the State Bar of Texas
Everything here comes from other attorneys.
Not a course, not a coach, not a content library. People who own practices, writing down what they learned the expensive way, so the next person does not have to pay for it twice.
What being in the room actually gets you.
Not features. The four things members say are different after a few months.
You stop guessing about money
What to charge, when to raise it, what a hire really costs, which software is worth paying for. The conversation most attorneys have with nobody.
You walk in prepared
Into a court you have never appeared in, an agency that never answers, a matter type you have not run before. Somebody in here has, and they wrote it down.
You get the name before you need it
The expert, the mediator, the reporter who can turn it around by Friday — from attorneys who hired them and will tell you how it went.
You are not the only one
Which sounds soft until it is three in the afternoon and you cannot ask anyone in your own office without looking like you should already know.
Law school taught you to practice. Nobody taught you to run it.
This is where most members spend their time, and it is the reason most of them upgrade.
Money
Pricing work, getting paid, collections, and what your practice actually costs to run.
Clients and marketing
Where good matters really come from, what spend does nothing, and how to say no to the wrong client.
Team and systems
When to hire, what to pay, and how to write it down so the firm runs while you are in trial.
Legal tech and AI
What is useful, what is marketing, and where the malpractice exposure sits. Firm members also get the AI Academy.
Included from $29 a month, and Founders Circle holds Firm access at $497 a year for the first hundred members, for as long as they stay.
Not ready? Get one email a week about the business of running a firm.
This is the actual thing you would be using every week.
You pick a room and a jurisdiction, and you get what members have written about it. Search is open to anyone; what comes back is for members, because a room you can read from the outside is not a room anyone speaks freely in.
- ●Standing orders, and where they actually live
- ●Courtesy copies — wanted, and in what form
- ●Hearing practice and how settings get made
- ●Clerk protocol — who to call, and when
- ●Timing, from filing to a date on the calendar
- ●What members would do differently next time
Six entries. Members see the answers, who wrote them, and when.
Join free to read themIllustrative — the interface is Circle, and the coverage list is real. Entries describe court and agency procedure only. Nothing in the archive addresses any judge’s ability, temperament, fairness or integrity.
One question, asked three ways.
Jurisdiction rooms
Court Call, Agency Call and Who I Use. How that court runs, how that agency behaves, and who actually delivered.
You walk in knowing what you are walking into.
Practice-area rooms
Twenty-one of them, each with a forms shelf and a thread for what people would do differently next time.
Depth in your own lane, from people already in it.
The business of law
Money, clients and marketing, team and systems, legal tech and AI.
A firm that makes more and takes less out of you.
I have walked into a courtroom not knowing how that judge ran her docket more times than I want to put in writing.
I have called agencies nobody could get an answer out of. I have hired an expert on nothing but a name somebody handed me at a bar function. And I have made pricing decisions that cost me a year, with nobody to check them against. Every one of those was a question somebody already knew the answer to — I had no safe place to ask it, and no way to find out it had already been asked a hundred times.
— Eleanor Curry, MBA, JD
Every answer you have ever been given is gone.
Not deleted. Just unfindable — which, for a question you need answered again on a Tuesday morning, is the same thing.
You’ve asked this question before.
Probably in a group with twenty thousand attorneys in it. You got a good answer. Now go and find it.
Can you find last month’s answer?
Do you know who answered?
Is it about your jurisdiction?
Can you talk about money there?
Can you get your own posts out?
What if the room closes?
Meta removed deep search across group content in 2019, deprecated the Groups API in 2024, and provides no native export. Its group-conversion policy leaves pre-conversion content visible only to prior members. None of that is a criticism of the groups or the people in them — it is what the platform is built to do.
Verified by bar number, and that is the point.
A room is only as candid as it is safe. In a group of twenty thousand you cannot know who is reading. An analysis of attorney listservs published in the National Law Review puts it plainly:
“Listserv participants are often anonymous to the poster. The disclosing lawyer cannot determine if the listserv participants have interests adverse to the client. Even an opposing party’s attorney may be a listserv participant.”
That is not a marketing point. It is the reason to build the room differently.
- ✓Bar number checked at signup
- ✓Real names, no handles
- ✗No vendors
- ✗No recruiters
- ✗No coaches selling to lawyers
- ✓Private, and not indexed by search engines
Between a chat room and a coaching program, there was nothing.
We went through what else an attorney can actually join before building this.
The large groups
Tens of thousands of members and real answers. Nothing searchable, nothing that persists, nobody verified.
A private chat community
Verified attorneys and practice-area channels, which is the right idea. It runs on a chat platform, so there is no permanent knowledge base and no filterable directory — a limitation its own founder has written about publicly.
Coaching programs
Several, all serious, all built around a coach teaching lawyers how to run a firm. Useful if that is what you want. It is not a room of peers.
This
Attorneys writing down what they know, for each other, in an archive that persists. In a price band that, when we looked, nobody else was in.
Everyone starts free. Upgrade when a room earns it.
There is no paid signup. You join Open, look around, and move up from inside if it is worth it.
Open
Free
Verified attorneys · no card · never expires
- Court Call, Agency Call, Who I Use
- Full search across all three
- Lex Live, every Tuesday
- Events calendar
Members who upgrade do it for the practice rooms and the money conversation — neither of which is in the free tier.
Join freeAssociate
$29/month
or $290 a year
- Everything in Open
- 21 practice-area rooms
- A forms shelf in every room
- The business of law — money, clients, team, tech and AI
- Monthly CLE, accredited in Texas
- Lex Live replays
Members who upgrade again do it for the directory and referrals — the part that sends work both ways.
Join freeFirm
$79/month
or $790/yr · $497 with Founders Circle
- Everything in Associate
- Member directory, by practice area and state
- The referral and co-counsel room
- AI Academy
- CLE library and template vault
- 40% off events
Where it pays for itself One referral, in either direction.
Join freeCancel any time; terms on the refunds page. Compare the tiers in detail
It opened in August 2026, and that is the whole offer.
The rooms are built and seeded, the first hundred Founders Circle seats are open, and what this becomes depends on who shows up and what they are willing to write down. That is the honest version. The archive is worth exactly what we put into it, and it compounds from here.
$497
a year, Firm-level access
Against $790 at the standard rate, held for as long as membership stays continuous.
100
seats, then it closes
No second Founders Circle round. Cancel and rejoin later and you rejoin at the rate in effect then.
Thirty minutes, every Tuesday.
One business-of-law topic, live, at noon Central. Pricing, hiring, getting paid, the software question, what AI actually changes. Bring the problem you are stuck on.
It is free and it is public — we go live on social, anyone can watch, and you do not need to be a member. Members get the replay.
The unwritten law lex non scripta — everything useful about practicing law that nobody ever wrote down. Thirty minutes a week, we write some of it down.
Get the topic each week
One email, Tuesday morning, with what we are covering and the link. Nothing else.
Separately, the monthly CLE is accredited by the State Bar of Texas and included from the Associate tier. How the credit works
Fair questions.
Who is actually in The Lex Collective?
Is the community public?
What do people actually talk about?
How new is this?
Can anyone sell to me in here?
Is this legal advice, or a referral service?
How much time does this take?
How does the CLE credit work?
What is Founders Circle?
Things worth writing down properly.
Written for attorneys, which means it has to actually say something.
Can you claim Texas CLE credit in another state?
Often yes — and which of four routes applies depends first on whether the session was live, not on where you are licensed.
Professional responsibilityIs it safe to ask about your case in a lawyer Facebook group?
The risk is not the one most attorneys are watching for, and it is not that a client sees the post.
NextWhat to ask a court coordinator, and when
The person who decides how your morning goes is rarely the judge. What to ask, how to ask it, and what never to.
Start with the free rooms.
Bar number checked at signup. Takes about two minutes, and costs nothing to find out whether it is any good.
