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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
Matthew 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
Jonny Finity
Jonny has been involved in construction since high school, framing houses in Virginia and excavating job sites in Maine. Now he manages website content for Levelset, helping to make sure contractors never lose a night's ...
Curtis Dennis
Curtis is a fourth-generation commercial carpenter, who has specialized in suspended ceiling systems since 1980. These days, his time is split between local construction projects and his freelance B2B copywriter service...
Tom Scalisi
Tom Scalisi is a construction writer with over 17 years of experience in the trades. He is passionate about educating contractors and subcontractors about getting paid and protecting themselves against payment issues. Th...
Dawn Killough
Dawn Killough is a freelance writer in the construction industry. She has over 20 years of experience with construction payments, from the perspectives of subcontractors and general contractors. Dawn has held roles such ...
Alexander Dunn
From the age of fifteen, Alex spent his summers working with construction and painting crews for a restoration contractor in New York state. He’s no stranger to what it takes to get something built and his time at Leve...
Sarah Dean
Sarah Dean is an in-house editor for Levelset. Sarah has been editing and writing for over five years, and has worked for publications, on topics, and with brands from A–Z and back again. Her news journalism background...
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Christopher Ng
Chris is the managing partner of Gibbs Giden LLP and primarily represents construction industry material suppliers, contractors, property owners, lessees and tenants, and design professionals in connection with all aspec...
Aaron Cartwright
Aaron graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from SMU in 2009. Following graduation, he worked as a Corporate Financial Analyst for seven years where he acted as a true business partner by providing financial results to op...
Courtney Stricklen
Courtney Stricklen is an Associate Attorney with The Cromeens Law Firm, PLLC, where she focuses on practicing construction, business and real estate law. Within these practices, she handles a multitude of contract disput...
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
Stephen Smith
Steve Smith was born in 1962 in Houston, Texas. He and his wife, Deby, are native Houstonians. They live inthe Cypress area and have four children, Kimberly, Trent, Tyler and Kaitlin. Steve received his Bachelor of Sc...
Daya Naef
Daya J. Naef, Esq. is a third-generation member of the Construction and Real Estate industries. At an early age she gained experience working with her family’s residential construction company and was in close contact ...
Jeremy Alpert
Jeremy G. Alpert concentrates his practice in the areas of civil and commercial litigation of all types, with an emphasis on banking law, construction law and insurance law, as well as construction contract negotiation.
Jason Feld
Jason Daniel Feld, Esq. is a Founding Partner of Kahana & Feld where he chairs the insurance defense and real estate/construction litigation practice group. Mr. Feld focuses in the defense of homebuilders, contracto...
Thomas Benner
Tom’s experience and background includes over 30 years in civil practice. Tom has substantial experience representing commercial landlords, forming business entities, all aspects of estate planning and estate settlemen...
Courtney Lynch
Courtney Lynch focuses her practice on construction litigation. She serves clients at all levels of a project and in all phases of construction, with a focus on risk avoidance and dispute resolution. Courtney is a freque...
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