Do you pay your lawyer first?

[Paranoid?]

Guys

Need some advise.

Bank pay the legal fee for the loan i took as legal subsidy.

But my lawyer asked to be paid in advance. Only after the bank process the payment to him will he refund the legal fee.

Its been 5 months, no news from him. Is that the usual practise here?

I didnt have to do that for my first private property. The current engagement is for a HDB. Any different? Its the same lawyer though.

But i feel the lawyer may be up to no good. His firm is a one man show and he didnt pick up my phone or answer my SMS the last 2 days. Am i being paranoid?



   

[ask the bank]

Ask the bank.
You can use their lawyers.

[beware]

i have this feeling about lawyers..... some of the unscrupulous would take a roundabout approach to your case so that they could spend more time than necessary, and this would translate to you paying them more legal fees.  take care

[Blaze]

Be very careful of lawyers handling property transactions. They treat it as a money making machine without doing much actual work for you. We got a lawyer through Standard Charterted and they messed up everything. Well, at least what the bank didn't mess up originally. They even tried to claim we didn't pay after we had made the payment. Very frustrating experience.