Interesting. Sounds like your first attorney worked for a high-volume settlement mill.
Not really, they were specialized in *that* particular kind of lawsuit, based on that same earlier court decision. As I said, the decision was very clear and should have applied to all such cases (hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of home purchases financed by banks); but each victim had to sue separately. (If you think that the US or European legal system is rotten, you should try ours...)
Settlement mills always claim they are specialized. That is not inconsistent with also processing incredible volumes of clients, doing minimal and routine work on each case.
Do you have injury mills in Brazil?