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Contract Surety 10.30.2024

Hungering For Your Next Bid?

Though not afraid of bidding, successful contractors use a thoughtful process for vetting the projects they choose to bid on. Having the ability to bid is an important capacity, but a “willy nilly” approach to…
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Hungering For Your Next Bid?
Contract Surety 10.30.2024

What Time Is It? 

You’re far from alone if you feel like the day got out from under you via unproductive meetings, the back and forth of emails and a vortex of petty details. Absent a magic wand, most…
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What Time Is It? 
License & Permit Bonds 10.24.2024

Understanding The Role: Notary Signing Agent

Notaries provide an important public service by checking identification and witnessing signatures on a wide range of documents. Notary signing agents also check identification and witness document signing, but take on the added responsibility of…
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Understanding The Role: Notary Signing Agent
Court Bonds 10.22.2024

Shifting Asset Ownership?

Assigning assets to new owners can be a useful estate planning strategy, especially when circumstances make a speedy and private inheritance preferable. In essence, when asset ownership is effectively shifted ahead of death, the public…
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Shifting Asset Ownership?
Court Bonds 10.22.2024

Dementia and Guardianship?

Reckoning with the progressive cruelties of dementia is an ongoing and stressful process for impacted families. Though tendencies to deny and minimize the challenges are understandable, a proactive approach to designating decision makers to step…
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Dementia and Guardianship?
Surety Bonds 10.18.2024

Why Wait: Resiliency Projects

As the work of rebuilding after Hurricanes Helene and Milton unfolds, states across the country are pressing ahead with critical “infrastructure resiliency” projects designed to curtail damage and improve preparedness in the face of severe…
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Why Wait: Resiliency Projects
Surety Bonds 10.18.2024

It’s Time: Get The Lead Out

As many of us across the country continue drinking water through “lead straws,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to speed up replacement of lead pipes via new regulations and a ten year deadline….
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It’s Time: Get The Lead Out
Surety Bonds 10.09.2024

New Jersey-New York: Uh-Oh?

As states across the country grapple with how to ensure “infrastructure resiliency” in the face of climate change, decision making, project planning and regulatory debate is heating up in New Jersey and New York. What…
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New Jersey-New York: Uh-Oh?
Contract Surety 10.09.2024

Unintentionally Subsidizing Clients?

As crazy as it sounds, if you are not paying enough attention to your bids, it’s likely that you are subsidizing clients quite a bit. Increase profits by tightening up the internal processes used before…
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Unintentionally Subsidizing Clients?