Aside from 1 and 2, I would also add that your counsel needs to be a person who you actually get on and "click" with. In the beginning years of my entrepreneur

Aside from 1 and 2, I would also add that your counsel needs to be a person who you actually get on and "click" with. In the beginning years of my entrepreneurial life, I had a lawyer who was up high in his tower and hard to communicate with. His work was fine but he just wasn't my type of person. He was hard to work with and my interactions with him exhausted me. A few years later due to a contract dispute I switched to a different lawyer (from a high end expensive firm, i.e. the Cooley example) and working with him has been awesome. In part because we get on really well and we're on the same wavelength. That and his work also is much better than the previous lawyer I had.