Comments on: Reading your legal docs http://venturehacks.com/articles/legal-docs Good advice for startups Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Antone Johnson http://venturehacks.com/articles/legal-docs/comment-page-1#comment-2416 Antone Johnson Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:51:54 +0000 http://venturehacks.com/?p=8703#comment-2416 Yes yes YES. Especially to #2. I never fully appreciated just how uneven the quality is among people at large, expensive law firms until I had the chance to oversee a dozen of them as General Counsel. The mantra among GCs and other in-house lawyers is “hire the lawyer, not the firm.”

For startup CEOs evaluating when to hire their first in-house GC, a major factor to consider is that he or she will have a much better basis to judge outside counsel (and their bills), including advising you on who to fire.

]]> By: Jeff Yablon http://venturehacks.com/articles/legal-docs/comment-page-1#comment-2415 Jeff Yablon Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:58 +0000 http://venturehacks.com/?p=8703#comment-2415 I tell clients similar things all the time. And in reading Elad’s notes I found myself thinking he was parroting what I say: Get an attorney when it’s time, which is at the end. and then, watch him as though he was the person you were signing the contract with.

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