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A company selling on consignment takes an unnecessary risk when it forgoes filing a UCC-1 Financing Statement.

Although you thought you followed the law down to every last detail, you have lost your essential remedy of a mechanic’s lien.

Although low oil prices are great for me at the pump, they are lousy for the oil and gas industry. Oil companies are filing bankruptcy and suppliers, secured & unsecured, are feeling the pain.

Don't use Wikipedia to determine mechanic’s lien/bond claim deadlines, the steps for filing UCCs and even for best practices on collecting past due receivables.

Article 9-507(c) of the UCC provides the secured party with a four month window to amend a UCC filing if the debtor’s name changes:

By now it is quite likely you are familiar with, or at least heard of, public-private partnerships; also known as “P3” or “PPP”.

Because the claim was filed before the filing of the notice of completion, it was deemed premature and the claim was subsequently invalidated - this was the ruling from a Louisiana Appeals Court in late 2015.

Furnishing dates can make or break your rights to file a mechanic’s lien or serve a bond claim. Should you use a ship or delivery date?

After all, accidentally terminating a UCC filing made JP Morgan an unsecured creditor - a $1.5 billion unsecured creditor.

All parties supplying materials or labor to a construction project should take the appropriate steps to secure their mechanic’s lien and bond claim rights – all parties, all projects, all the time, no exceptions.

Perform formal searches on any party required to receive a copy of a notice. This goes for liens/bond claims too – you should always confirm the parties within the ladder of supply.

Articles of Incorporation are important because even states make mistakes when indexing entities (more often than you’d think).