Concord,
I was mad at my attorney/paralegal as well. I have been following up every 20 days with them asking them if they got a 45 day letter on my behalf. Everytime I sent email , they would reply me back saying that they have not yet recd. the letter. Even on June 1st they told me that. On June 13, I got a reply that they have recd. the letter and replied it. I found out that they got the letter around April 27th and replied before 3 days of due date. I was mad at the paralegal and talked with her in high tone.
She mentioned that they would not reveal the fact that the letter was recd. untill it was replied back(Why? thats their policy! crap...). I also asked her why they took so much time in replying back the letter, she mentioned that BEC had asked for many papers and my employer was collecting them /submitting them to lawyer and that's what took all the time.
One more thing to add... Meanwhile, between April 1st and June 1st I had sent about 3 emails to BEC for CASE status. I got their reply that my case was not enetered in the system yet. These all confused me, if the letter was sent by BEC on 20th April, why did not they give me my case number and instead BEC emailed me that the case was not enetered yet.
Bottom line, I gave up all hopes (as I was SWA and never made it to Regional) and I also stopped checking the forum regularly.
I would suggest you not to worry and keep on following up with your lawyer and BEC. Hopefully you will get yours soon too.