Yes, it does help if the signing agent is also an attorney. I had an amusing situation a while back. A signing service or title company sen tme a check which was short, I first called to inquire politely when the balance would be sent. Needless to say they tried to give me the run around.

I finally got the CEO on  the phone, I use the term loosely because it sounded like the operation was run out of his home...lot's household background noise. In any event I told him that he could either pay me or both he and his client could come to Connecticut to explain it to a judge. It is questionable whether the Connecticut court would have jurisdiction under the long arm statute, but a good faith argument could have been made for it if internet fraud was alleged in the pleadings. The Statute does make an exception for that if documents are transmitted to a computer in Connecticut as part of the transaction.

I explained that since he was incorporated that under Connecticut law he could not represent the corporation in the Superior Court. It would be an unauthorized practice of law. He would have to hire a law firm to represent his corporation...,as would his client also. Undoubtedly there would be a motion to dismiss filed to challenge the court's jurisdiction. It is a dispositive motion in which I have the right to demand argument on the motion. That would require his corporation's and client's law firms to draft briefs and appear in court to argue the motions...more expense for him. I explained that even if he won on the motion it would cost him more than if he paid my fee. I also mentioned that on the off chance I won...I would garnish his client's mortgagor's monthly mortgage payment to his client.

He decided to pay the rest of my fee.