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There's nothing about lawyers that requires geographic proximity. If you really dislike Chicago based lawyers, hire a lawyer out of a VC-specific lawfirm from

• sachinag 17y ago
  Yeah, I wish someone had told me this before. I just didn't know. However, one of the great benefits of Valley representation is the intros you can get to investors. Those investors tend to be local. Thus, the best situation is to be wherever your lawyers and the investors you wish to be introduced to are. (My Chicago-based counsel intro'd me to a few Chicago-based VC firms and no angels or seed groups. There are precious few of all three here.)