Our team of lawyers, writers, contributors, and support
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
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 ...
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 15 years of experience in the trades. He is passionate about educating contractors and subcontractors about getting paid and protecting themselves against payment issues. Th...
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...
Meet other experts in our network
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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