If I can share my experience, I must say my attorney did a great job. Just this passed Thursday I closed on a house that I have been in contract since the beginning of July, I used my attorney as intermediate for things I wanted, I wanted some type of credit for some repairs the house needed and for him to find out why I was getting charge and arm and a leg for title services, I asked him to request a copy of the fee schedule from the title company and to contact my lender. At the end I was able to get the repair credit and my lender reduced the cost of title services by a little over $1200. Call me a crazy, but I never asked him how much he was going to charge me because the attorney who referred me to him, is a good friend of mine, he just doesn't do closing. However I did once meet an attorney that I won't be surprised if he is not dead by now. He would charge families to get their son's out of jail and would just pocket the money and give them the run around afterwards, but one day he got beat up pretty badly that the landlord of the office space he was renting asked him to leave because he didn't want his building to get vandalized.