21 May 2010 4:31 PM:
Dear Delza,
Despite i coincide with the
fact that the lawyers must transmit confidence and obviously independence,
recommending a lawyer is something delicate.
First because the person
recommending assume a role of responsibility, as the
"potential" client, trusts on the person recommending the lawyer, and
therefore, this confidence is translated to the lawyers. I am sure that if you
are thinking about getting divorced and your happy divorced neighbor
recommend you her lawyer, you won’t think that there is any kind of risk in
term of confidence or independence.
But when we speak about
conveyance, the history seems to be different because the general tendency to
see real estates recommending lawyers, apparently because they look for
the best service for their clients, although this service is not always the
best.
About the concrete
situation of your friend, we should see first if the payment was made to the
real estate using the seller as an instrument or if it was paid to him as the
final receiver, in the first case the money was paid to the real estate not the
agent. I suppose that a reservation agreement was signed and therefore we
should consider the clauses included on it before giving a final opinion.
Kind Regards
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