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I have a little bit of a problem with my real estate attorney. It started with a verbal disagreement we had — I won’t go into too many details, but it was the result of him not making the appropriate phone calls in time, causing us to delay our closing because he realized we needed a document from us at 2:30 the day before the Jewish holiday when both my wife and I were working (we had until 4 to get him said document). Now I am beginning to question his ability when there are exactly 4 business days (that aren’t Jewish holidays — and all three lawyers involved are Jewish) until our last possible closing date and this title restriction is still not cleared up with the bank. If this somehow doesn’t go through, we risk losing an over $150,000 deposit we paid. What is my recourse? Can I get another lawyer to step in and take over? Would this just take longer and be less likely to help?

The biggest problem is that I work in the finance industry and don’t exactly have a lot of free time to deal with this right now because of work. I’d like to just trust my lawyer to get this done, but he has given me absolutely no reason to do this at this point.