Pardon my ignorance, but I did a search on this thread for the word "lawyer" and there was no match. My stupid question: Doesn't San Francisco have good lawyer

Pardon my ignorance, but I did a search on this thread for the word "lawyer" and there was no match. My stupid question: Doesn't San Francisco have good lawyers who are specialized in this stuff? I mean, a lawyer who's getting paid by you, not by the company. I'm not advocating complete ignorance of the matter, but there are people who know the ins and outs of this and are aware of most of the missteps through which they can guide you. My point is that having a lawyer also serves as a deterrent and sends a signal you're not to be hustled. It also tells you about the people you're dealing with: the company not liking it should set off your spidey sense. I mean, the first thing someone who's hustling would do is to be offended you're taking precautions because it hurt his feelings that you don't "trust him". It's not that you don't trust him. These things are just like prenups. People's feeling about them stems from the assumption that at the time they're activated, they'd be feeling the same for each other as they are now, which is not true. By the time a prenup is activated, people usually hate each other, and a prenup serves to protect you from the future version of them, and them from the future version of you. The versions that hate each other. There's a reason billionaires have the cheapest divorces, and artists/athletes have the most expensive ones.