By default, you don't treat expenses paid after the start-up date as start-up expenses, assuming you are a cash basis taxpayer. You could make an argument that you should treat your legal fees as start-up expenses based on the purpose of the expenses and the fact that the services were provided before you started your business. If you choose to do this, you may have to enter a date in the previous year when the services were provided, in order for TurboTax to treat them as start-up expenses. The date you choose will not appear on your tax return, it is just used to allow the program to give the expenses the proper treatment on your tax return.
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