You are abstracting information - you are not giving legal advice.  I don't care if you work for an attorney or not - they are not at the courthouse and cannot say whether your work is right or wrong when received.  Attorneys can only give advice as to what was produced which is a separate process to the entire process.  It is with my background in real estate and law that allows me to be a qualified abstractor.  I do not believe that anyone without both can be a qualified abstractor - but that is my personal belief.  I also believe that is why there are so many errors in the records right now.  Hiring abstractors that had a 3 month online course with no background for cheap rates.  Abstracting is very much based on laws of the individual states - they are not nationwide laws - like some of these nationwide companies believe they can sit a person down and tell them to do the entire United States.  I do not advice on my report in any way, shape or form and even have advised clients to tell their clients if they want an interpretation of the results to contact their attorney.  I know how to abstract and why I abstracted what I did but I cannot tell any client or person of the general public the reasoning behind it - that involves legal advice which I always direct to an attorney.  You need to be very specific in what your duties and qualifications are as an abstractor and be able to separate that from legal advice and with that you can work for any person, firm or corporation you want to work for.