Unpopular opinion and anecdotal but in all the companies I've started lawyers have been the single biggest waste of money. They gave me nothing that I couldn't

Unpopular opinion and anecdotal but in all the companies I've started lawyers have been the single biggest waste of money. They gave me nothing that I couldn't have found by doing a Ctrl+F in the law code. It may help that I live in a country with pretty straight-forward laws and very little bureaucracy, which doesn't seem to be the case in the US. Even the preparatory work and case-laws are easy to digest.