A legal career helping start ups?
ryanroberts: If you want to work with startups, you would have either do corporate/securities or IP work.  Very difficult to do both, as each is a deep & separate field of law.  Thus, it's unlikely that one lawyer could handle all a startup's legal needs (and thus be 'general counsel').Of course, there is the capital resources issue of having a lawyer full-time.  Even if the startup is funded, I doubt the investor(s) would be happy cash (or even the startup's equity) is going towards a full-time lawyer instead of marketing or product dev.