Law Practice
May 7, 2020
How to start your legal career in Silicon Valley
My first piece of advice is to immerse yourself in law school with the courses that are most relevant to forming, financing, scaling, buying and selling businesses. It doesn’t stop at the practicum course on startups.
Louis Lehot
Foundre
L2 Counsel
L2 Counsel is a boutique law firm based in Silicon Valley. Louis is a corporate, securities and M&A lawyer, and helps his clients, whether they be public or private companies, financial sponsors, venture capitalists, investors or investment banks, in forming, financing, governing, buying and selling companies. He is formerly the co-managing partner of DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office and co-chair of its leading venture capital and emerging growth company team.
Hailing from Berkeley, California and growing up in and around the Silicon Valley, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer from age seven. No joke. My parents and brothers will verify. I feel so incredibly lucky and privileged to have had the support of my family and friends, and clarity of purpose throughout my educational career to make it to law school and beyond. Even for a local boy, there was no guide or manual that came with the mission, so I feel karma-bound to share m...
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