Zlien has partnered with Rocket Lawyer, an online legal service, to make mechanics lien filing nationwide easy and affordable. Through the partnership, Zlien will provide services to Rocket Lawyer users to help automate the filing and service of mechanics lien claims. Thousands of contractors and material suppliers have trusted their mechanics lien claims to Zlien, [...]
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Zlien Announces Marketing Internship Program
Zlien, the nation’s premiere mechanics lien filing and compliance management service, announces the launch of its new Marketing Intern Program. The program will give partipants the opportunity to work closely with a rapidly growing venture-backed startup company and gain experience in media relations, publicity, content marketing and web development. The Marketing Intern Program will be [...]
Zlien Announces Mechanics Lien Affiliate Program Private Beta
What if you could help your construction industry clients or readers manage receivables, avoid bad debt and get paid on every construction project? Today, Zlien announces its new affiliate program, making it easy for companies to refer a leading and reputable mechanics lien and preliminary notice service, and earn commissions. “Anyone who works with companies [...]
Mechanics Lien Laws By State: Select Your State and Read On
The Lien Blog has over 900 posts and 300,000 words about the mechanics lien and bond claim laws across the country. That’s a daunting amount of content, and it’s an on-going priority for us to make this content more accessible and digestible to our readers and visitors. This means we’re constantly implementing organizational changes and [...]
Zlien wants to share your story!
Has Zlien helped you get paid on a project? We want to share your story on our website. We won’t bother you by asking you to write up a testimonial, but we would like a picture of you for us to post as a Zlien Success Story. If you include a link to [...]
File A Lien Online: The Smart Way To Get Paid
You’re unpaid on a construction project and you’re thinking about filing a mechanics lien. What should you do? Will a lien get you paid? Is there a way to file a lien online? Must you hire an attorney? Let’s put these questions to bed. You Can File Your Mechanics Lien Online Zlien allows contractors, material [...]
How To File A Lien
The Lien Blog previously published a great article titled “How To File A Lien In Plain English.” The post opens with a comment about how often people search for the term “how to file a lien.” In fact, its one of the top mechanics lien related searches. This fact is interesting because the “how to [...]
Thanksgiving Message from Zlien
Thanks To You Entering the holiday season, everyone here at Zlien is thankful to you – our clients and readers. It’s been a terrific year for us at Zlien. Our blog’s readership has grown over 500% in 2012. We’ve closed our first round of seed capital with the New Orleans Startup Fund. We released a [...]
Zlien Goes for the Gold on Trivia Night
Every week the Zlien team gets together to take a break from the everyday grind. This week, we decided to enjoy a little trivia at a local pub (that’s right, I said ‘pub’). By popular demand, I even made an appearance and helped bring our team to victory. It was a close win, and [...]
Thanks To AECForensics.com For Guest Post Opportunity
Thanks to AECForensics.com (@AEC4N6) and Brian Hill (@BLHill) for the opportunity to guest post on its blog this afternoon. Brian runs a great publication and construction consulting service, and I really enjoyed putting this particular blog post together. The article published there was “Survey of Recent Mechanics Lien Cases Shows More Confusion Than Clarity.” I [...]
Zlien Throwback: Before Our Office Went Paperless
A long, long time ago, back when man made fire, Zlien kept hard copies of EVERYTHING in real-life file folders. Hard copies were stored in files in the Zlien Headquarters, which is still located in uptown New Orleans. Today, Zlien can operate from just about anywhere since all of our research, operations and mail are [...]
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Mechanics Liens and … Criminal Law?
May 22, 2013
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Mechanics Lien: Are Your Lien Rights The Best It Gets When Time To Collect A Debt?
May 22, 2013
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Zlien Website Back Up and Running
May 21, 2013
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Idaho Mechanics Lien Law: 5 Things to Know
May 21, 2013
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Zlien Forced to Defend Its Resources from Copyright Infringement by NACM
May 21, 2013
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A Short History Of The Mechanic Lien
November 15, 2010
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4 Reasons Why It’s Smart To Outsource Your Preliminary Notice Work
July 20, 2011
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17 Ways A Mechanics Lien Works To Get You Paid
July 26, 2012
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Is My Project Private, Federal, State…Or Something Different?
January 19, 2011
Columnists
Scott Wolfe Jr., JD
CEO of Zlien, and a licensed attorney in six states, he's experienced in construction & corporate credit management laws....Read More
Nate Budde, JD
Zlien's Chief Legal Mind and licensed attorney. Nate is a Stanford & Tulane Grad, a Jeopardy! alumni and more....Read More
Seth Smiley, JD
Construction attorney in California & Louisiana, Seth is an experienced construction litigator and Zlien's COO....Read More
Funding Gates
The world's first CRM for receivables management.Read More
Gretchen Lynn
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Jason Bull
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