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Open Questions · Civil Litigation
The summary judgment response timing has changed, and I had it come up in court recently. The judge didn't know. Opposing counsel didn't know. I didn't either.
I can read the rule. What I want is what's actually customary while everyone figures this out.
A real post inside the community. This is the kind of question that has no public answer, and the reason the room exists.
Why this exists
People expect you to know things you simply don't know. Clients assume it. Opposing counsel assumes it. The court assumes it. Somewhere along the way you started assuming it about yourself, and now there's a whole category of questions you don't ask anyone.
You can search for an answer. You can ask an AI. Both will give you something confident, and neither has stood in that courtroom, dealt with that examiner, or set that fee and watched what happened next.
Sometimes talking to another attorney is the only thing that actually helps.
That's what this is. Verified attorneys, real names, answering each other honestly — because the room is private, nothing is indexed, and nobody here is performing.
The whole proposition
Not a search result. Not a confident AI summary. Someone who has stood in that courtroom, dealt with that examiner, or set that fee and watched what happened next.
That is the product. Everything else on this page is plumbing.
What's inside
Pricing, collections, hiring, marketing spend, software. The business of running a practice is the thing every owner is figuring out alone — and it's the reason members stay.
You're headed to a courthouse you don't know. The county, the standing orders, the filing quirks, the local rule you can't find. Procedure, never personalities.
USPTO, IRS, USCIS, the Secretary of State, appraisal districts, licensing boards. How the office actually operates right now.
Experts, mediators, investigators, court reporters. The list you'd give a friend who asked.
Collections, margins, overhead, what you pay yourself. Structures and models, not coordinated numbers — the antitrust policy is published and enforced.
Where the next client actually comes from, what you spent to get them, and what made it repeatable instead of lucky.
Your first hire, your worst hire, the SOP you should have written two years ago, and delegating without losing quality.
What's working, what's hype, and why AI made you faster without making you richer.
A room for what you practice, and a room for where you sit — new attorney, going solo, solo practice, legal CEO, in-house, government.
You already have somewhere to ask
Fair question, and the answer is not that those groups are bad. It is that the answers do not survive — and you can date exactly when that stopped being fixable.
Three years of answers, and no way back to the one you need.
Divided by topic. Twenty-one practice-area rooms, a separate room for where you sit, four rooms for the business of running a practice. Not one undifferentiated feed.
And searchable. By members, permanently. Free members search the three open rooms. Paid members search everything they can see.
Facebook groups, bar listservs, Reddit, and what the paid alternatives actually cost.
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Open is free and never expires. Bar number, real name, and you are in.
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Pick the one that's actually on your desk this week and I'll tell you which room answers it, and whether it's behind the paywall or free.
Your room
Who is in the room
Solos, firm owners, associates, in-house and government. If you practise, you belong here.
Every member gives their bar number and licensing jurisdiction, and I review new members myself. Not open to vendors, recruiters, or anyone selling to law firms.
The point. The room stays useful because of who is kept out of it.
Everything you get
Tiers stack. Each one contains everything in the one above it.
What every verified attorney gets the day they join.
Everything in Open, plus the rooms members actually stay for.
Everything in Associate, plus the parts that send you work.
Or go straight to Associate, Firm, or Founders Circle.
Everything above
The free tier covers the three searchable archives, permanently. No card.
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CLE
One full accredited hour every month, twelve a year, included in Associate and Firm. Accredited by the State Bar of Texas through LexCollective. Materials and attendance records kept for you.
Licensed somewhere else? Accreditation follows the members. As registration builds in a state, we file for accreditation there — and when it comes through, your credit is simply there. Nothing for you to submit, no forms on your end, no separate signup.
Being precise, because this audience checks: today we are accredited by the State Bar of Texas and nowhere else, and we will not name a state until the approval is actually in hand. Everything else in the membership works the same wherever you practise.
Legal tech and AI
A room for the stacks, the tools and the workflows, run by people using them on real matters. Including why AI made you faster without making you richer.
Plus the AI Academy at Firm level, and a vendor room where experts, mediators, investigators and software get named and rated by the attorneys who actually hired them.
Free and paid
Every room here is an archive. Somebody asks, the people who have actually done it answer, and the answer stays searchable for the next attorney instead of scrolling away the next morning. The line between free and paid is not how much you get. It is what the knowledge is about.
Free, permanently
Court Call, Agency Call and Who I Use. Which county wants the courtesy copy and in what form. What the USPTO is actually doing this month rather than what the manual says. Whether that expert was worth what he charged.
Why it costs nothing Telling you a judge's standing order costs the attorney who tells you nothing. And the more attorneys in here, the better the answers get — so we want everyone in it, not everyone paying for it.
What a search returns Everything members have reported about an institution, a county or a vendor you are about to deal with — including the entries posted before you joined.
Associate and above
Money, Clients and Marketing, Team and Systems, Legal Tech and AI, the practice-area rooms with their forms shelves, and Your Setup. What someone actually collected last quarter. What they pay themselves. What the wrong hire cost before they fixed it.
Why it sits behind a wall Not as a revenue trick. This is the material attorneys only put in a closed room where everyone has the same exposure they do, and the wall is what makes that honesty possible. A free room full of strangers gets you platitudes.
What a search returns The same depth, on the questions you cannot ask anywhere with your name attached. Firm adds the member directory, the referral and co-counsel room, the CLE library and the template vault to what you can search.
Search runs across every room your level opens, and the archive does not reset when you upgrade — joining at Open today means the three archives are already yours, and Associate adds everything posted in the paid rooms since the day they opened.
Membership
Every member gives their bar number and licensing jurisdiction when they join, and I review new members myself. Real names only. Start free and upgrade later, or go straight to a paid tier — both work, and the price is the same either way.
The short version of the difference. Open is where you look things up. Associate is where you join the conversation. Firm is where you reach a specific attorney by name and take material away with you — the directory, the referral room, the CLE library and the template vault. Founders Circle is Firm at $497 a year.
Each tier below says what it is worth, not only what is in it, and where a number exists anywhere else we have used that number rather than ours.
Free
No card. Never expires.
Look things up. The three reference rooms, searchable for good.
What it's worth
The searchable archive is the part every other community either charges for or loses. Here it stays open to free members, permanently, and nothing in it expires when you stop paying, because you never started.
No card. Never expires.
$29 /mo
or $290/year
Join the conversation. Ask and answer with other owners about running the practice.
What it's worth
Twelve accredited hours a year, one full hour every month. Bought an hour at a time, twelve hours of Texas CLE runs $600 to $840 at the going rate of $50 to $70 an hour — and single-hour courses price higher, not lower. The Connecticut Bar charges $80 for one hour. NBI charges $199.
Associate is $290 a year. The CLE alone is worth at least twice what the membership costs, and the rooms, the forms shelves and the replays are on top of it.
Monthly or annual at checkout. Or join free first and upgrade later.
$79 /mo
or $790/year
Reach the people, and take things with you. Named attorneys, referrals, and the library.
What it's worth
Everything Associate is worth, plus the things you would otherwise buy one at a time. The event discount alone returned $130 on a single ticket in 2026 — summit and dinner was $325, and 40% of that is most of a month's membership back from one weekend.
Then the directory, the referral and co-counsel room, the AI Academy and the template vault, none of which has a price anywhere else because nobody sells them to attorneys.
Monthly or annual at checkout. Founders Circle is Firm access for $497 a year.
Either paid tier
Email us within 14 days of your first purchase and we will refund it in full. No conversation about why. After that you can cancel any time and keep access through the end of your paid term. The whole policy is here, and it is two paragraphs long.
Everything in Firm — the top paid tier — for $497 a year instead of $790.
Capped at the first hundred members, and held at that rate for as long as your membership stays continuous, even as the standing price rises. Cancel and rejoin later and you rejoin at whatever the price is then.
Same access as Firm. Member directory, the referral and co-counsel room, AI Academy, CLE library, template vault, 40% off every event. Nothing is held back.
Against Firm annual, $790
Save $293
37% below the standing annual rate
Against Firm monthly, $79 × 12
Save $451
48% below $948 a year paid monthly
$497 /year
Firm is $790 a year, or $948 if you pay monthly. This is the same access, locked.
Claim a Founders Circle seat14 days to change your mind. Email us inside two weeks of your first payment and we refund it in full, seat released, no questions.
Not ready for a year? Join free or start Associate at $29.
In the room
Events are a member benefit, not the point of the platform. But a year of answering each other in writing changes when you have stood in the same room once, and that is what these are for.
Half an hour of us talking through whatever is worth talking about that week — a different topic each time, not a webinar and not a pitch. Free and open to anyone, members or not. No CLE credit and not accredited. Replays for Associate and above.
One full accredited CLE hour every month for Associate and above, twelve hours across the year, accredited by the State Bar of Texas through LexCollective. Meetups alongside it.
The summit and the Empire Awards dinner. Members save 40% on every Lex Collective event, this one included.
Photographs from the 2026 summit and awards dinner are being added.
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Questions
Licensed attorneys. Solos, firm owners, associates, in-house, government — if you practice, you belong here. Every member gives their bar number and licensing jurisdiction when they join, and I review new members myself — anyone who isn't a practicing attorney doesn't stay. Everyone uses their real name. Not open to vendors, recruiters, or anyone selling to law firms.
The community opened on 24 August 2026, and I'd rather tell you that than imply a crowd that isn't there yet. What exists today: the rooms are built and seeded with real content, including my own — what I got wrong, and the questions I still don't have answers to. Founders Circle members shape what gets built next, and there's a room specifically for that. If you want to join a community that already has a thousand people in it, this isn't that. If you want to help decide what it becomes, it is.
Yes, and nothing here is Texas-only except where the accreditation currently sits. The three free rooms are organised by whichever court or agency you are dealing with, wherever that is. The business-of-law rooms — money, clients and marketing, team and systems, legal tech and AI — have no jurisdiction at all; collections, hiring and pricing work the same in Sacramento as in Harris County. The practice-area rooms are national.
On the CLE, the honest answer: it is accredited by the State Bar of Texas and nowhere else today. As registration builds in a state, we file for accreditation in that state, and when the approval comes through it applies to the monthly hour you are already attending. There is nothing for you to submit and no separate signup — the credit simply starts counting. We will not name a state here before the approval is in hand.
Because you should be able to see the room before you pay for it. Open gives you Court Call, Agency Call, and Who I Use — post in them, search them, keep using them, no card and no expiry. The paid tiers add the business-of-law rooms, the practice-area rooms, and twelve accredited CLE hours a year. You can upgrade from inside once you know whether it is worth it to you, or go straight to a paid tier from this page. The price is identical either way, so starting free costs you nothing except the time it takes to look around.
The community is private and not indexed by search engines. No screenshots, no forwarding, no exceptions — that is a condition of membership, not a suggestion. That said, you're still a lawyer with confidentiality obligations — no client names, matter names, case numbers, or identifying facts, ever. If you can't ask it without identifying the matter, don't ask it here.
Two things you should know rather than discover. I review who gets in; I do not sit over what gets written, so there is no moderator reading your thread before it posts. And what you write stays in the room if you later leave — we don't pull individual posts out on request. Both of those are reasons to write every post as though it will outlast your membership, because it will.
Yes — searchable by members, permanently. That's the point. Facebook groups let you ask but not find; every answer disappears the day after it's given. Nothing here is public or findable on Google, and it never will be. It's searchable by the people inside it.
No, and we won't. We're a room full of competitors, which means antitrust law applies to us — a bar association's fee schedule was held to be illegal price fixing in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar, and there's no exception for lawyers. What we do discuss is fee structure, scope, engagement letters, collections, and what happened when you changed something. Describe what you did; don't decide together what to do. The full policy is published inside.
$497 a year for as long as you remain a continuous member, even as the regular price rises. If your membership lapses and you rejoin later, you rejoin at whatever the price is then.
Neither. Discussion here is general professional conversation between attorneys — it creates no attorney-client relationship and no co-counsel or supervisory relationship. The Lex Collective takes no part of any fee and brokers no arrangement. Any referral or fee division is entirely between the attorneys involved, under the rules of the jurisdictions that apply to them.
Email us within 14 days of your first purchase and we'll refund it in full. After that you can cancel any time and keep access through the end of your paid term. Details in the refund policy.
Open is free, it never expires, and it does not ask for a card. Give your bar number, look around, and upgrade only if the room earns it.
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