I so deeply agree with this, and I was surprised to discover just how much startup-specific stuff these specialized lawyers can do. Model your cap table in various scenarios (since most of us don't have a finance person early on this is HUGELY helpful) and also give you the due-diligence checklist for pretty much any counter-party, since they've sat opposing them all. They're also working on lots of deals, so they can give helpful answers to, "is this normal?" or "what are you seeing in the market?" that can help inform how hard to negotiate.

If you have a distaste for lawyers, as a lot of people do in our culture, and try to put off deeply engaging and instead do it yourself you are going to get burned. It is better to pay someone their hefty fees and then ask TONS of questions, so that you will truly learn from everything you have them do. This is the unsexy part of running a startup that I wish I could tell every founder. You just have to embrace it, might as well get good at it.