I don't think attorney clients are the route for even some abstractors that have been in business for a few years.  If you don't know the law behind what you are doing they don't want you to do their work.  They know that abstracting has to do with the laws behind them and can make a BIG difference in how you report what you find.  They don't want someone that knows most of it but can make a huge mistake down the line when they throw something more difficult out there for you to do.  I wasn't trying to be negative - I was just throwing the truth out there.  Sometimes people cannot handle the truth and the truth is in this case above, if you worked under 3 abstractors and have no experience in title plants, law offices, mortgage companies - you are far from ready for anything except more employment.