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The probable answer is that there is an existing business/financial relationship between the VCs and the law firms. I bet if you examined the VC's past investments, you would see the paw marks of specific big Northwest "white shoe" law firms like Perkins Coie, DWT or Stoel Rives all over them.

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That just means that those firms are more loyal the the VC funds than to you because that's where they get most accounts from. If I was a VC I'd think any entrepreneur who thinks he has an advantage hiring a firm that I've kept on retainer for a decade is a complete moron. I recall a certain Silicon Valley law firm with the usual "beyond reproach" ... "our reputions are the foundation of our business" stuff ... which at the end of the dot-com boom got into tons of lawsuits when it was discovered that despite "client confidentiality" the partners would pass along information of new startup clients to VCs they knew that invested in competitors.

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