Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. announced the hiring of Gary Lax as its Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Lax has more than 35 years of financial services experience and was most recently a partner at Luse Gorman, PC, specializing in regulatory enforcement, transaction law, and capital planning as well as numerous other legal, regulatory, and business matters.  Mr. Lax also served on the faculty of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for more than 10 years and started his legal career as an attorney with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C.