Collections

For contractors seeking relief from non-payment, Finch, Thornton & Baird, LLP offers decades of construction law collections experience throughout California, as well as in Arizona and Nevada. Our collections attorneys have prosecuted and defended mechanic’s liens for private works, and stop payment notice and payment bond claims for both private and public works with excellent results. If getting paid is your goal, the office of Finch, Thornton & Baird should be your legal destination.

UNDERSTANDING CONSTRUCTION COLLECTIONS STATUTES INSIDE AND OUT.

There may be no other industry that provides such unique and procedurally-intensive statutory remedies for payment disputes. Whether to employ a mechanic’s lien, stop payment notice, or payment bond will depend on the circumstances of each project and dispute. But successful recovery under any of these legal remedies is achieved only by knowing which strategy to deploy combined with a detailed understanding of the very precise statutes and adherence to specified notice and filing requirements.

COLLECTIONS PROSECUTION: THE PATH TO GETTING PAID.

General contractors, design-builders, and construction managers encounter payment delays from project owners. In turn, trade subcontractors suffer from not being paid their contract balance or for extra work performed for the general contractor or owner. It is a vicious cycle that often demands legal intervention. Our collections law attorneys are highly experienced in the diverse statutory remedies that assure aggressive collection of all amounts due and can provide creative solutions to correct client mistakes in statutory compliance. Most importantly, they excel at securing collections payments through mechanic’s liens, stop payment notices, and payment bonds.

COLLECTIONS DEFENSE: THE LEGAL ART OF ASSET PROTECTION.

The firm’s proven history in prosecuting collections is driven by the learned ability to provide unique defense strategies for payment claims brought by lower-tier subcontractors. This includes the preparation and presentation of offset claims which allow clients to avoid or reduce liability on otherwise valid payment claims. A high level of attention to detail, pragmatic cost analysis, and early identification of accounting and claim discrepancies are paramount to success. So too are our many years of experience working with general contractors to reduce and avoid liability based on discrete fact patterns.

Bottom line, experience, extreme due diligence, creative solutions, and the firm’s aggressive approach empowers our legal team to consistently achieve positive outcomes, minimize client liability, and reduce the time to resolution. We believe these qualities differentiate us from other construction law firms.

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Our expertise with Collections include:

Stop payment notice
Performance bond
Payment bond
Mechanic’s lien
Resolution of disputes