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I believe that one reason is that YC started funding more international startups and it can be legally complicated to onboard internationally-founded companies into YC's standard deal. YC's legal team spends a lot of time helping founders with that and similar issues.

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Agree, that makes sense — thanks for taking time to take share a guess.

Seems like “conducting legal due diligence on prospective portfolio companies” is also likely large aspect of YC’s legal department’s efforts; though I would think YC’s Continuity Fund would have been a much larger internal consumer of due diligence services than early stage fund; this based on recent YC job listing for a “Legal Analyst” position:

https://www.ycombinator.com/careers

https://archive.ph/2CitR

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