Shekhar Parmar

Shekhar is a lifelong entrepreneur, a former lawyer, and the visionary force behind Lexter. With a passion for solving inefficiencies in the legal industry, Shekhar has dedicated his career to creating smarter solutions for businesses and professionals. As the founder of HighBar Enterprises, a privately funded incubator, he oversees the launch and growth of startups across the legal, tech, and consumer goods sectors.

Shekhar’s career is marked by multiple successful business exits and impactful C-suite roles, demonstrating his ability to transform innovative ideas into thriving enterprises. His deep understanding of the legal landscape, paired with his big-picture thinking, has made him a respected figure in the industry. Now, through Lexter, Shekhar is bringing his expertise to modernize legal recruiting, crafting a system that’s efficient, transparent, and impactful.

When he’s not fine-tuning the user experience or dreaming up the next big thing, you’ll find him telling himself (and his team) that adding "just one more screen" to his work station will make all the difference.

Bryce Lokken

Bryce has been a driving force behind Lexter’s product development for over three years. With a background steeped in marketing, business development, and an unrelenting obsession with the question, “Does it add value?”, Bryce brings a unique perspective to Lexter’s evolution.
From his time at national brands to eBay to freelancing to agency roles, Bryce has honed his expertise in scaling businesses and identifying growth opportunities.

As Lexter transitions from alpha into its ambitious, disruptive goals, Bryce’s leadership ensures that the platform remains user-centric, innovative, and invaluable to clients. As someone with Cree lineage, he has a natural interest in balancing business outcomes with inclusion and the addition of needed, but sometimes overlooked, voices.

In his free time, Bryce is known for his quirky habit of writing bios in the third person—and, of course, finding ways to keep working on Lexter. Ask him about his thoughts on process efficiency, but be prepared for an enthusiastic deep dive.

Emma Cimolini

Emma is an experienced marketing and operations strategist with a proven track record of helping startups scale to multimillion-dollar valuations. Her career spans multiple stages of growth—from early, scrappy beginnings to refined, late-stage scaling—making her an expert in adapting strategies to meet each unique challenge. At Lexter, Emma drives marketing efforts, builds operational frameworks, and ensures the company’s engine runs smoothly, no matter the size or complexity.

Having overseen the hiring and scaling of teams from their nascent stages to specialized, high-performing groups, Emma’s ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution is unmatched. Whether she’s designing growth engines or implementing systems to simplify operations, she is always two steps ahead.

With her knack for turning chaos into opportunity, Emma is the go-to person for tackling big challenges and making them manageable. When not perfecting Lexter’s operations, Emma is likely to be found cracking jokes about how startups are 90% controlled chaos—and ensuring they stay controlled.

Our story. Your future.

The vision driving a new era in legal recruiting.

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A vision for legal recruiting

We built Lexter to give lawyers and employers the hiring experience they’ve always deserved—but never had.

For too long, legal recruitment has been shaped by closed networks, vague promises, and sky-high fees.

Lawyers were treated like commodities. Hiring managers were left in the dark. The entire process lacked transparency, control, and trust.

Lexter is changing that.

We’re a legal hiring platform built for a new era — where better data, broader access, and smarter tools power every decision. We replace the old-school rolodex with a national database of legal talent. We centralize hiring workflows, anonymize early screening to reduce bias, and give lawyers the ability to explore opportunities discreetly — on their own terms.Lexter isn’t a recruiter.

We’re the platform for modern legal hiring and career intelligence — where access and agency lead to confident decisions, not guesswork or pressure.

Our manifesto

We practice clear truths.

Finding the right lawyer isn’t just filling a vacancy—it’s completing a team.

Great careers are built on authentic matches, not forced fits.

Data-driven insights should enhance humanity, not diminish it.

Real diversity values uniqueness over mere optics.

Promises set expectations; keeping them earns trust.

Our commitment pushes us to reimagine recruitment, to never settle for the ordinary. Why?

Because everyone deserves to love their Mondays.

We know the legal recruiting world. That's why we're so passionate about disrupting it.

Our founder, with experience as both a lawyer and a partner at a leading search firm, gained unique insight into the shortcomings of traditional legal recruiting. He saw firsthand the inefficiencies, lack of data, and conflicting motivations that led to misaligned placements—issues that often left firms struggling to build cohesive teams and lawyers feeling out of place in their roles.

Determined to find a better way, he embarked on a five-year journey to rebuild the process from the ground up. The result is Lexter—a platform that combines deep data insights with a non-commissioned, expert team dedicated to creating truly aligned placements.

By prioritizing transparency and reducing bias, Lexter’s approach makes the hiring process faster, clearer, and more enjoyable for both firms and lawyers.

Today, Lexter stands as more than just a recruiting platform. We’re a team committed to disrupting the status quo, empowering employers to build stronger, high-performance cultures, and helping lawyers find roles where they can thrive. With Lexter, legal recruiting is no longer about filling positions—it’s about creating lasting connections that drive success and satisfaction across the legal industry.

A team built for modern legal hiring

Our advisory board