Liens
The lien clock starts with the work, not the invoice
Why the deadline to protect a payment claim is usually counted from your last day on the job, and how to find yours.
Ila Lofgren6 min read
Construction law · Irving, Texas
Set the steel before the pour.
Contracts, notice letters and payment deadlines are the steel inside a job. We help contractors, subcontractors and owners place it before the pour, and check it when the load comes on.
Watch first
Why the paper goes in before the concrete
Ila Lofgren walks through the first call: what we ask, what to bring, and which deadlines we read before anything else.
The first call, start to finish
A short talk to watch before you call.
Guides
Bar by bar: guides for each stage of a job
Short, plain guides on the deadlines and paper that decide who gets paid.
PaymentRetainage: the money held until the job is closed
What it is, who can hold it, and the paperwork that releases it on a subcontract.
Cirilo Balderas5 min read
ProcessWhat each stage of a job needs on paper
From the signed contract to the final release, in the order the paper has to move.
Kavita Ravindran4 min read
Where we work
Four places a job needs steel
Each one is a point where a job carries load: a contract, a license, a payment, a claim on the property.
Contracts and subcontracts
Read it before you sign, and write the change orders while the work is still moving.
Contracts
Contractor licensing
Renewals, board letters and the rules for who may bid and who may sign.
Licensing
Payment disputes
Unpaid invoices, held retainage and back-charges, handled in the order that protects the claim.
Payment disputes
The firm
Two states, one office, three languages
Who is admitted where, which federal courts we appear in, and who speaks what.
- Admitted to practice
- TexasBalderas, Lofgren, RavindranOklahomaLofgren
- Federal courts
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of TexasU.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
- Spoken at the firm
- EnglishAll three lawyersSpanishCirilo Balderas and the front officeHindiKavita Ravindran
Before it sets
Send the paper while it's still wet.
A contract draft, a pay application, a notice letter, an unpaid invoice. Send what you have and we'll tell you in plain words what it needs and by when.
Please don't send confidential details through the form.