Comments on: Real Estate Attorney Names Names

By: Lora C.

Lora C. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:13:59 +0000

Banks require you bring all your mortgage loan docs to submit for a Loan modification- Has anyone figured out that maybe the banks don’t have the proper documents. With the Mortgage Documents you bring – they can foreclose faster.

By: Adam Rust

Adam Rust — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:41:05 +0000

I think he was doing the closings because it is a common way for lawyers that don’t work at a firm to pay their bills. Some lawyers are finding that it is hard to make a living these days. I do have friends that teach at Duke Law. They say that even some of their students – albeit the ones in the bottom quarter of the class – are not finding work. I hear the same or worse about Carolina Law grads.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:59:24 +0000

I used to live in NC. One of the few states in which it was required?/customary to use a lawyer to handle real estate closings instead of a title agency. In many states, closings are handled by a title agency which does the title search and processes the closing paperwork. There is no need for a Duke Law School grad to have to personally handle most tasks in a closing. It would be interesting to see how title-related closing costs compare in NC – where the NC bar seems to have a lock on it – to those in other states.