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Learn more about the people behind the articles, information, and answers published on the Levelset website. Our expert network includes an in-house team of lawyers, editors, and writers, as well as accountants, financial advisors, and construction attorneys from around the country.
Meet the lawyers
Matt Viator
Matt is a New Orleans based attorney, originally hailing from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University Law School in 2017 after focusing his studies in Business. Before enrolling at Tulane, Matt atten...
Nate Budde
Nate Budde is Chief Legal Officer at Levelset in New Orleans, LA. Along with being a husband and father, Nate is a licensed attorney in Louisiana and Texas. Nate began his legal career assisting with disputes in the afte...
Alex Benarroche
Alex is originally from South Florida but has called New Orleans home since 2003. He graduated from Loyola University College of Law and went on to get a master's degree in intellectual property and Internet law from the...
Scott Wolfe Jr
A husband, dad, & entrepreneur in New Orleans, Scott founded Levelset to even the $1 trillion construction playing field and make payments easier, faster, and more predictable. Levelset is used by thousands of contra...
Meet the editorial team
Matt Viator
Matt is a New Orleans based attorney, originally hailing from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University Law School in 2017 after focusing his studies in Business. Before enrolling at Tulane, Matt atten...
Nate Budde
Nate Budde is Chief Legal Officer at Levelset in New Orleans, LA. Along with being a husband and father, Nate is a licensed attorney in Louisiana and Texas. Nate began his legal career assisting with disputes in the afte...
Alex Benarroche
Alex is originally from South Florida but has called New Orleans home since 2003. He graduated from Loyola University College of Law and went on to get a master's degree in intellectual property and Internet law from the...
Jason Lambert
Jason Lambert is a Florida licensed attorney based in Tampa, Florida who focuses his practice on representing and advising contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers in the construction industry. Before law scho...
Chris Ng
Chris is an adjunct professor of law, active speaker, and published author, and is nationally recognized in the field of construction law.
Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan is an associate attorney with Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah, Inc. Mr. Ryan advises general contractors, subcontractors, construction managers, owners, developers and property managers on contrac...
Meet other experts in our network
Matt Viator
Matt is a New Orleans based attorney, originally hailing from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University Law School in 2017 after focusing his studies in Business. Before enrolling at Tulane, Matt atten...
Nate Budde
Nate Budde is Chief Legal Officer at Levelset in New Orleans, LA. Along with being a husband and father, Nate is a licensed attorney in Louisiana and Texas. Nate began his legal career assisting with disputes in the afte...
Alex Benarroche
Alex is originally from South Florida but has called New Orleans home since 2003. He graduated from Loyola University College of Law and went on to get a master's degree in intellectual property and Internet law from the...
The Levelset Payment Help Center is not your average law forum, and these are not your average lawyers. This community of attorneys includes some of the country’s most experienced construction lawyers who specialize in providing legal services to contractors, suppliers, and others in the construction industry.
These independent attorneys provide free expert answers to legal questions about construction payment in every U.S. state.
Meet the support team
Julie Leveque
Julie has been helping construction professionals with payment for over 4 years. Her favorite pro-tip to share is how customers can mark a project as paid in their account. This means that Levelset’s software and exper...
Laura Williams
Since 2018, Laura has been helping Levelset customers navigate construction payments so that they can protect their jobs and get paid. Some of her favorite moments are when a customer circles back, especially after sendi...
Erin Classen
Erin has been immersed in construction payment since 2017. Erin spends each day helping office managers and business owners optimize their payment processes so not even $1 goes unprotected. There’s no better feeling th...
Alex DeRojas
Alex has been helping Levelset customers for over 3 years. With a background on the pro services and property research team, he loves educating users on the entire lien process for their specific state. He takes pride in...
Devin Anderson
Devin has been helping contractors and Levelset users get paid for over 2 years. He loves interacting with all manner of construction businesses and showing them how easy our platform makes it to send and organize paymen...
Liz DeVito
Liz has been helping Levelset customers protect their accounts receivables since 2019. She loves working with such a tight-knit team and consuming lien law knowledge to better serve contractors.Her depth of knowledge mak...
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