Five hours of CLE and a written plan to take your firm from seven figures to eight — then dinner with the only people who understand what that costs.
Why this exists
You are a good lawyer running a business you were never trained to run. That gap has a cost, and you are already paying it — quietly, every month, in ways your P&L doesn't label.
Revenue keeps climbing. Your take-home doesn't.
More matters, more staff, more hours — and the number that lands in your account barely moves. Most owners have never calculated their actual profit margin, so they can't see where it's going.
Your people are your largest expense and your biggest blind spot.
Payroll runs 50–70% of overhead at most small firms. Yet few owners have a documented hiring process, written SOPs, or any way to measure whether a given hire generates value or destroys it. Losing one employee can cost $15,000 to $50,000.
You're the bottleneck, and you built it yourself.
Every real decision routes through you. Vacation means the firm slows down. The practice you own can't operate for a week without you — which means it also can't be sold.
You have no idea what your firm is worth.
No valuation, no succession plan, no buyer conversations. The largest asset you own is the one you've done the least planning around — and the work that makes a firm sellable takes years, not months.
There's nobody to ask.
You can't ask your associates. You can't ask opposing counsel. Bar association events are for referrals, not candor. The specific problems of owning a firm are the ones you're solving alone, and that isolation costs more than any line item here.
Every one of these has a fix. You'll build all five into a written plan before you leave.
Reserve your seatThe Room
Every seat goes to someone who signs payroll, carries overhead, and has already proven the model works. No associates collecting credit. No one still deciding whether to hang a shingle.
That constraint is the product. It's what makes the questions honest and the answers useful.
The Program
Three working sessions and a closing workshop. Every session ends with something you can implement Monday, not a framework you'll forget by Tuesday.
Check in, coffee, and the first conversations of the day.
Eleanor Curry sets the frame for the day.
The financial and human-capital metrics that separate a firm that grows from a firm that just gets busier.
Live exercise: you'll calculate your own metrics and leave having identified your single biggest growth lever.
1.5 CLE hours · Law office managementPractical, not theoretical. Every tool discussed is available today and priced for a firm your size.
Live demo: at least one tool shown in action, plus a 30-day implementation plan you take with you.
1.5 CLE hours · Legal skills & techniquesYou built a firm. This session turns it into an asset that outlasts your practice — whether you pass it on, sell it, or simply stop.
Panel: attorneys who have already navigated a succession, acquisition, or sale answer questions directly.
1.5 CLE hours · Law office managementA facilitated working session. You leave with a written plan: one metric to implement, one AI tool to adopt, and one succession or wealth-building step to start — not a notebook full of ideas you'll never revisit.
0.5 CLE hours · Law office managementPre-booked one-on-one meetings with event partners. Ten to fifteen minutes each, scheduled in advance, only with the ones you choose.
Cocktails, a seated dinner, honoree spotlights, and the conversations most attendees say they came for.
Nine hours of programming. One written plan. Ninety seats, and the early rate closes September 12.
Reserve your seatThe Outcome
You got to seven figures on effort — your hours, your judgment, your relationships. That approach has a ceiling, and you have probably already hit it. Eight figures isn't more effort. It's leverage: systems that produce revenue when you aren't in the room, and an asset that holds value whether you show up or not.
That's the whole design of this day. Four shifts, each one addressed in a session, each one written into your plan before you leave.
You leave October 10th with that plan written, dated, and yours.
Start building itWhat comes after
Esquire & Empire is one day. The Lex Collective is the year around it — a national community of firm owners built for the questions you can't take to your associates, your opposing counsel, or a bar association mixer.
Private spaces organized by what you actually do, so the person answering your question has faced it in your practice area, not a theoretical one.
Find owners by practice area, jurisdiction, and firm size. Refer work out. Take work in. The referral network is the point, not a side effect.
Ongoing credit and regular gatherings — so your continuing education stops being a December scramble.
Real numbers, real salaries, real mistakes. The conversation firm owners have never had a safe room for.
One day builds the plan. The community is what keeps you accountable to it.
Reserve your seatThe Faculty
Founder, The Lex Collective
Thirteen years as a law firm owner. Eleanor founded The Curry Law Firm and practices across civil litigation, personal injury, appellate, civil rights, estate planning and probate, business, real estate, intellectual property, and employment law. She built The Lex Collective because when she crossed into a seven-figure practice, the roadmap she went looking for didn't exist.
Additional faculty
The full teaching roster is announced as founding partners confirm. Registered attendees hear first.
Thirteen years of running a firm, distilled into five hours and a plan you can act on Monday.
Reserve your seatAdmission
One bad hire costs $15,000 to $50,000. This costs less than a day of your own billable time — and it's the day you stop guessing.
Full program, credit, and partner access.
Early rate — goes to $495 on September 12
The full day, start to finish.
Early rate — goes to $750 on September 12
Register
We'll send your invoice and confirmation within one business day. Seats are held in the order received.
Partnership
Every attendee owns their firm and controls its budget. They're choosing this quarter on research platforms, banking, staffing, case management, and capital. Esquire & Empire gives you five hours with them and a seat at dinner — not a table in a hallway.
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Tell us who you're trying to reach and we'll send the partnership prospectus with tier pricing, reach figures, and current availability.
Details
Attorneys who own or lead a practice that already works — you have clients, staff, and revenue, and your constraint is scale rather than survival. The material assumes you've made hiring decisions, set pricing, and carried payroll. If you're in your first two years, the Lex Collective community will serve you better than this room will.
The instructional program runs 9:45 AM to 3:30 PM and carries 5.0 hours of general MCLE credit, approved by the State Bar of Texas. Sponsored by LexCollective, course #174329258. Bring your bar number to check-in and we report your attendance directly. The dinner is a social event and carries no credit. Attorneys licensed outside Texas should confirm reciprocity with their own bar.
Dinner-only admission isn't sold. Attendees may add a guest seat for $150 at any time before October 3.
Full refunds through September 26, 2026. After that your registration transfers to another attorney at your firm or applies to the 2027 program — your choice.
The venue is announced to registered attendees first, with full address, parking, and arrival details sent two weeks out. It's central, walkable from nearby hotels, and chosen for the dinner as much as the sessions.
No. Esquire & Empire is open to any qualifying firm owner. Members simply pay less — 40% off, or 50% for founding members.
Ninety seats. Early rate closes September 12. The plan starts October 10.
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