Generally Law firms do not like to send mortgages to the recorders office because it is necessary to perform a title update before recording the mortgage to assure that there are no intervening liens that would affect the mortgagee's priority
for possible future foreclosure. Otherwise they may have to buy out the intervening lien in order to protect their own interest.

In so far as prior notification of a recording, it has been my experience that clients usually call first to find out if you are available to record the mortgage for them. In those rare instances in which there was no prior call my firm notified the client that it was not possible to complete the recording for them within the time requested. The client in those cases either agreed to an extended period of time to record or requested that the documents be overnighted back to them for reassignment... at their expense. There was no charge or penalty, and it was not necessary for them to change any of the paper work which would result in a charge to the abstractor. It was simply a matter of reassigning it to another abstractor with the time to do it.