ATTENTION: NSW Builders & Subbies — Tired of Clients Paying You Late, Disputing Your Invoices with Bogus Reasons or Just Plain Ghosting You When It Comes to Payment?
Transform Your Payment Confidence in Just Half A Day: From "I Hope They Pay Me" to "I Know Exactly How to Make Them Pay Me"
Learn the insider secrets of the Security of Payment Act that put YOU in the driver's seat from day one
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Are you sick of waiting endlessly for payments that are rightfully yours and putting up with lame excuses from clients who owe you money?
Tired of dealing with disputes, delays, and chasing invoices?
Have you delivered on your contractual promises and trusted your client to pay you on time only to find them digging up bogus defects and simply converting your outstanding balance into back charges and their profits.
Have you heard endless excuses from clients about why they can’t pay you (some rather creative) while some just say, “We’ll pay you as soon as our client pays us”?
Why put up with non-payment (or even reduced or delayed payment) any longer?
Learn (in just half a day) how to take full control of your payment entitlements in the shortest time possible and walk away with all the instructions and template documents you need to manage payment disputes (or potential disputes) like a pro!
We’ve taught numerous business owners and construction professionals how to master their payment claims process and use little-known (but incredibly powerful) techniques to get paid on time.
When you complete our face-to-face seminar, you'll know how to manage payment claims better than 99.9%* of managers in the industry.
And we've been in the trenches just like you. Your trainer is a qualified civil engineer (with project and site management experience), who has over over 24 years of experience as a construction lawyer and over 10 years as an adjudicator under the NSW Security of Payment Act).
Your investment in this training is much less than you'd pay a city lawyer for a mere two hours of their time - and it comes with a GUARANTEE (more on that below)!
But the opportunity to learn about this powerful legislation ... and even more powerful ways to leverage the knowledge you gain to get paid fast ... is highly limited. We only take 15 people per seminar and to date we have only conducted one seminar every 4-6 months.
If you want to be notified about the next opportunity to attend this incredibly powerful seminar, click on the link below and add your first name and email address to join the notification list.
* This is our best guess, but we actually think it's conservative.
What Past Students Have Said About Our Seminar
“Frustrated with late-payers, this course provided me with the tools necessary to get paid in full, on time. A must for anybody involved in the construction industry at any level.”
Adam Glavas
Split Projects, Commercial Interiors
“The course content could save a business from disaster. Hearing fellow tradesmen discussing their experiences with an expert was a great way to make the details of the Security of Payment Act memorable. A quality tradesman owes it to him/herself to know about the Act.”
Neil Hunter
Carpenter
“I found this course to be highly helpful and insightful into the other side of the construction industry. Moving forward, I feel a lot more confident in working for new clients and always knowing that I will get paid for the work I do. Thanks Mike!”
Tom Olic
Synergy Coatings
“Unbelievably great course for general knowledge of all aspects of the Security of Payment Act.”
Patrick Lukas
Lukas Projects
“Great insight into the way the Security of Payment Act works. Mike was very knowledgeable in his presentation and I would definitely refer more clients to these seminars.”
Peter Steliou
Accountant, Steliou & Associates
“Great day! Highly recommend everyone in the industry to do this [training]. If you value your business and time, you need to hear this information!”
David Pozar
New Vision Joinery
“Highly recommend the course Mike delivers. Very practical and relevant to my building field."
Andrew Howard
Howardconstruct Pty Ltd
“I liked how easy it was to understand the content from the course, even with little prior knowledge. I see benefit in other contractors attending because the course and its contents truly arm you with key knowledge and tools to use the Security of Payment Act.”
Virginie P.
Sullivan Carpentry
“I found the course to be thorough and detailed. It was very informative on the processes required to be followed and helpful on how to deal with instances of payment dispute in the correct manner.”
John I.
Civilcraft
Why Consider Our Seminar?
Imagine learning in less than one day what it has taken experts in the field over 10 years to understand.
Consider the following benefits when you attend our highly-regarded seminar.
Take Control of Payment Disputes
Stop letting payment disputes disrupt your business. This seminar provides clear, actionable steps to resolve disputes efficiently, ensuring you get paid what you’re owed without unnecessary stress or costly delays.
Boost Confidence and Grow Your Business
Knowing how to use the power of the law effectively (but ethically) will boost your confidence and get you paid on time far more often with less stress.
Get Over $20,000 Worth of Template Documents
For this seminar (and possibly this time only), we’re sharing with you over $20,000 worth of super valuable templates so you can handle payment claims fast and professionally.
Learn Specialist Negotiation Strategies & Tactics
Learn WHAT to say and WHEN to say it to get better outcomes. Use them to get paid faster or strengthen your case before a dispute even starts.
You Don't Need to Be a Genius ... With Our Easy-to-Understand Teaching Style
Our seminar makes the Act easy to understand. By the end, you'll have advanced knowledge and the confidence to apply it in your business - even if you've never read a law book in your life (and let's face it, why would you want to?).
Learn What to Do Before a Dispute Even Starts and Avoid Nasty Surprises
Knowing what to do upfront avoids problems down the line. Learn what evidence you need to collect ahead of time so you can 'encourage' the other party to avoid the dispute path and just pay you on time.
Here’s What's Included In Our Half Day Seminar Filled With Like-Minded Contractors
SESSION #1: How the Act Works ... in Easy-to-Understand Language
Here we cover the detailed workings of the most important piece of legislation you absolutely need to understand if you do construction work in NSW.
Many people are frightened by the thought of learning "dry" law, but after this first session, you'll understand everything you need to know about the NSW Building & Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (the "Act") and you'll be amazed at the clarity you will have, including WHY it was created, WHAT it tries to achieve and HOW it works in powerful detail.
We teach it at an easy-to-follow pace with nobody left behind.
And this is where most seminars stop! But we're just getting warmed up, because we then move onto ...
SESSION #2: How to Prepare Powerful Documents under the Act
You see, once you've understood how the Act works, we then teach you how to apply it by showing you how to prepare key documents required under the legislation.
In this session, we walk through all of the template documents that are included in your workbook and explain the importance of each critical part and how to put them all together. These templates are an invaluable reference that you will revisit multiple times long after you attend the seminar.
Note, these template documents are worth well over $20,000 (no joke!) ... if you had to hire a lawyer to prepare them for you as a resource for your business.
SESSION #3: Tips & Traps, Strategies and Tactics to Get Paid ... FAST!
This is where the rubber really meets the road at a whole new level!
We'll look at the legislation from the 50,000 foot level to make sure you get an understanding of the BIG PICTURE and fully grasp where the strategies and tactics meet and how to leverage the Act to the max.
You'll learn:
where the legislation fits into the overall project timeline;
how to enforce a successful adjudication determination;
how to leverage a number of other opportunities available to you to 'strongly encourage' your non-paying client to pay on time;
how to negotiate with clients to give yourself the best chance of a positive outcome while still maintaining a cordial business relationship;
how to conduct thorough due diligence to choose your clients or subcontractors carefully in the first place to minimise your exposure ... and
so much more!
As part of the above three sessions, you'll learn:
8 elements you must include to create a powerful payment claim
22 potential reasons for rejecting a bogus payment claim (you’ll want to know all of these because you only have one shot to put them forward under the Act)
16 possible counter arguments to clients who refuse to pay
What you should never do when negotiating with non-paying clients
4 ways to minimise exposure to non-paying clients in the first place
The truth about adjudications and how they really work
A key overlooked feature of the Act that is incredibly powerful and simple to use
3 key principles you must follow when preparing your adjudication application or adjudication response
To learn all this and more and to take advantage of our heavily discounted offer for a limited time ...
More Feedback From Past Students ...
“Having Mike explain my rights as a contractor gave me a feeling of confidence ... moving forward with my business and future ventures.”
Tony Ostojic
Marko Welding & Sons
"Mike's seminar on the Security of Payment Act was clear, concise and incredibly practical. He broke down complex legal concepts into easy-to-understand steps, making it highly valuable for anyone in the construction industry."
Nick P.
Civil Contractor
“I left the course with the understanding and knowledge of [the Security of Payment Act] and now have the confidence to address any conflict that arises.”
Scott Morrison
MSM Communications & Electrical
“To understand the way the Security of Payment Act functions, and to be able to utilise it in a positive manner to enable timely and complete payment of invoices owed, this training course is the most effective means of which I am aware to do this.
The content provides the necessary detail to enable small business owners to leverage the knowledge gained to improve their chances of payment on time, and for the full amount owed.
Mike and Academy Legal provide the basics in an easy to understand way that the industry has needed for years!”
Tom Burns
Managing Director, SVR Consulting
“Mike's knowledge and passion for SOPA shows in his presentation and the extensive course workbook provides for a valuable future reference ...I have attended numerous SOPA courses over the years and this is by far one of the very best.”
Marko Matanovic
B.E. Civil
Here’s More Of What You Can Expect When You Attend The Seminar …
7 ways to ethically and legally “encourage” (or force) a delinquent client to pay you after you win your adjudication and they still refuse to pay you. Some of these methods are known by very few people ... yet they're super effective!
15+ Tips and Traps that can save you enormous heartache
3 secrets to dramatically reduce your legal fees when engaging a lawyer ... if you still need a lawyer to help you handle a complex dispute
How to think like a lawyer, even if you’ve never read a law book … and much more.
And, of course, you wouldn’t be attending just to earn CPD points, but it helps to know that …
You get to record approximately 5 hours of CPD points towards your annual continuous professional development obligations (Note: What you can claim will depend on the rules that apply to your profession).
You'll also receive a certificate of completion after the seminar.
In the seminar we will go through all of the above-listed items using diagrams, flow-charts, examples and case studies in a simple and easy-to-understand format and ...
If there is still anything you're not sure about, we'd be happy to answer all your questions. In fact, the questions asked by attendees often generate excellent additional insights that fellow attendees value greatly.
But First, a Warning …
The training we offer is not for everyone.
To ensure we're not wasting your time, let me tell you right up front that …
If you’re not an owner of a construction-related business or ... if you're not a construction professional (ie, a project manager, commercial manager, contracts manager, contracts administrator, financial controller or similar), you may not get the same level of benefit as those within this category.
If your company does shoddy work and expects to get paid anyway, this is certainly not for you.
This seminar is also not for private practice or in-house lawyers.
Here's Who This Seminar IS For
This seminar is for people who:
are responsible for managing or preparing upstream payment claims TO their client (i.e., a developer, head contractor or even a major subcontractor) ... and/or
have to manage or respond to downstream payment claims FROM subcontractors, suppliers and consultants.
This seminar is for people who genuinely believe the quality of their work is of a high standard and who deliver what they promised (high-integrity).
It's for those who recognise that their business reputation is a fundamental business asset on which they will never compromise BUT ... they want to know how to deal with other parties who don't have the same level of integrity.
The information we’ll be sharing with you is incredibly powerful and understood by so few. It should only be used to recover unpaid claims for quality work. Of course, mistakes happen. So anything less than the agreed standard of work should be rectified promptly before a payment claim is lodged for that work.
So Who's Delivering The Seminar?
Mike Krsticevic founded Academy Legal, a boutique construction law firm, and has over 24 years experience in law.
Mike has worked in both top tier law firms and as 'in-house counsel' (ie, lawyer within a business), including as General Counsel and company secretary of the Australian operations of a large multi-national corporation in the water engineering industry.
His experience extends over multiple industries and areas of law. In construction law specifically, his experience includes:
drafting, reviewing and negotiating construction agreements (on projects ranging from $1m to $3.2bn) covering the full range of contracting models such as design and construct, construct only, supply and install, maintenance, joint venture, DBOM (design build operate maintain), alliance contracts, PPPs (public private partnerships), power purchase agreements, and more;
managing construction disputes (ranging in value from $100,000 to $70m) and implementing litigation avoidance strategies to avoid costly disputes in the first place;
preparing Security of Payment Act claims and responses; and
providing general advice in relation to infrastructure and property development matters.
Mike is also a senior adjudicator under the NSW Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 having been in this role since 2014 and making over 100 adjudication determinations to date.
Any Building Experience?
Mike took a break from the law (from July 2022 to May 2024) and, at the request of a friend, project managed the construction of a 3,200m2 A-Grade tilt-up concrete panel factory in Sydney's west with a 1,600m2 basement carpark (total of 49 car spaces top and bottom), 440m2 mezzanine office, substation, lift and 100kW solar system ... all on a 5,200m2 site.
With the help of one first-year cadet, he was solely responsible for the project and undertook the roles of not only the project manager, but also engineering design reviewer, site manager, construction manager, contracts manager, safety officer, quantity surveyor, steel scheduler, and even a labourer ... when the need arose.
Mike took over the project after DA approval was granted by Council and then worked with consultants to develop detailed designs, obtain the construction certificate, initiate and complete all construction work through subcontractors and suppliers, and successfully obtain the occupation certificate.
He maintained full responsibility for the value engineering, construction methodology, programming, tendering, contract drafting and negotiation, site management, budget management, variation claims management, engagement with neighbours, and more. CLICK HERE for more images of the project.
This experience has given Mike a whole new level of understanding and appreciation of the challenges faced by developers, head contractors, subcontractors, consultants and even suppliers in the construction industry.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) with Honours (1996) and a Bachelor of Laws (1998), both degrees earned from the University of New South Wales.
Here's What You Get When You Sign Up
Includes ...
Value (incl. GST)
SEMINAR (Face-to-Face)
A relaxed, half-day of easy-to-understand education on how to consistently get paid on time, without the fuss, including a practical study of the NSW Security of Payment Act. All this will be delivered by a construction lawyer with over 24 years' experience and over 10 years' as an adjudicator under the very legislation you'll learn about.
You have the opportunity to ask as many questions as you like and, more importantly, listen and learn from the questions asked by others in the room. You'll find this incredibly valuable! Easily worth 5 hours x $495/hr + GST for a total of ...
Valued at:
$2,722
WORKBOOK
A practical, value-packed workbook that has lots of easy-to-follow explanations, diagrams, checklists (and more) that we expect you'll want to refer to for years to come. Valued very conservatively at ...
Valued at:
$347
TEMPLATES
You also get several, invaluable templates that will save you an enormous amount of time and stress when it comes to preparing aspects of your payment claims or responses. And these are no ordinary templates. In fact ...
NO LAWYER would EVER share these with you. We pondered for quite some time whether we should actually share them at all or, if we did, whether we should at least charge substantially more for their inclusion in the seminar materials you get.
But for this next seminar (and possibly never again), we've decided to give you everything you need to help you protect your business and your team's future.
As a result, these templates are STRICTLY COMMERCIALLY CONFIDENTIAL and are not to be shared with anyone who is not inside your business and the templates are shared under licence for use strictly within your business only.
If you consider the time taken to create them (in total, well in excess of 40 hours - probably more like 60-80 hours) and the fact that virtually no law firm would ever share their templates without demanding a premium on their regular hourly rate, these are conservatively valued at 40 hours x $495/hr + GST totalling ...
Valued at:
$21,780
CATERING
You get coffee and tea on arrival, morning & afternoon tea and a working lunch. You will also have the opportunity to network with other like-minded, quality members of our industry. Those rare folk who care about the quality of their work ... just like you.
Complimentary
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
We'll email you a Certificate of Completion after the seminar evidencing your attendance at 5 hours of highly valuable training in compliance and business management related to your company/industry.
Complimentary
MINIMUM TOTAL
ESTIMATED VALUE:
$24,849
The value you'll get in this seminar is easily worth more than $24,849 if you had to go it alone and buy this level of knowledge and support yourself.
But, of course, even though we believe it is well worth the investment, it's certainly not what we expect you to pay.
The normal, everyday price for this seminar will be an incredibly low $1,597 (or maybe even higher in the near future).
But, if you act fast and reserve your seat now, your investment will be an incredibly low ...
$1,297 (incl. GST)
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to take control of your cashflow!
Click on the link below and save your seat before they're all snapped up!
We GUARANTEE You'll Find This Seminar Valuable!
When you attend our seminar, one of two things will happen.
Scenario One: You’ll stay to the end and say “WOW, THIS SEMINAR WAS BRILLIANT! JUST WHAT I NEEDED” ... OR
Scenario Two (unlikely): After staying for the first 2 of 3 sessions of the seminar (ie, up to the start of the lunch break), you think to yourself, “You know what ... this isn’t really what I thought it was going to be and is not something I can use to help me in my business”.
In the unlikely event that Scenario Two occurs ...
We Will Refund You Your Ticket Price IN FULL, No Questions Asked
You’re either impressed or we will give you your money back. All you need to do is return your workbook immediately at the end of Session 2 and we will arrange for your seminar investment to be refunded in full, no questions asked. And you can still enjoy lunch on us as our thanks for taking the time to attend the seminar in the first instance.
Can you imagine any other lawyer spending over 3.5 hours with you (ie, by the end of Session 2) - that's over $1,900 of their time - and offering you the chance to simply say, "nah, didn't like it" and getting a full refund, no questions asked?
Three Important Choices
We hope this has alerted you to the critical importance of learning everything you need to know about the Security of Payment Act. If it did, you have one of three important choices to make:
Do NOTHING ... and continue to manage your construction projects just the way you have been up until now while crossing your fingers and hoping that everyone always pays you on time or better still, that no one takes advantage of you using the power of these very laws.
Consider the real cost of inaction. Without the knowledge you’ll learn in this seminar, it just takes one time for a client to deduct $1,000 from your payment claim for bogus reasons and if you don't know how to handle the situation, you’ll already be way behind the eight-ball.
And this doesn’t take into account the fact that you could one day totally save your business with the knowledge in this seminar. Contacting a good lawyer when you’re already in a pickle may be too late if you haven’t done the critical things required beforehand. Do you know what those things are?STUDY on your own ... Grab yourself a copy of the latest legislation — both the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) (as amended) and the Contractors Debts Act 1997 (NSW) - and read it from cover to cover and hope that you understand what it does and does not say. Of course, doing this won't include examples of powerful negotiation strategies, and tactics you'd want to use, or how to think like a lawyer, how to prepare critical documents based on lawyer-drafted templates, how to avoid disputes in the first place, and much more! And just how much longer will it take you? ... OR
Click on the link below and make the decision today to educate yourself in an area that can have an immediate and profoundly positive impact on your business … and which will forever give you unbeatable confidence to better manage your business cashflow.
What if you could compress the 10-year learning curve of an experienced construction lawyer into just half a day ... and gain the knowledge that puts you well into the top 0.1% of people in the construction industry (when it comes to managing payment disputes)?
Remember, starting to learn the information in this seminar when you're faced with a serious payment dispute will be well and truly too late.
Don't get caught out! Protect the future of your team and the people you care about most and get educated now.
What's the worst that can happen? You show up ... and after listening to two-thirds of the seminar you decide it's really not for you ... and get a full refund. Can it really get any easier than that?
Here's What To Do Next
Hurry and register for the seminar now before they are all gone ... and before the price goes up!
The seminar will be held on:
Remember, we GUARANTEE you'll get massive value from the seminar or you can leave at the end of Session 2 (of 3), return your workbook and we'll give you a full refund, so it’s risk-free to you!
Don't miss out on this rare and limited opportunity! Click on the button below to save your spot.
Sincerely,
Mike Krsticevic
Founder/Solicitor Director
Academy Legal
P.S.: We've shared with you how you can learn to navigate around the significant risks you face every day in your business from people who have contracted you to do construction work but are really trying to take advantage of you (whether through bogus back charges, bogus defect claims, refusing to release your retention money, or just plain refusing to pay you).
Or whether it's the risk of subcontractors doing dodgy work but still expecting to get paid in full and using the NSW Security of Payment Act on you! Will you know what to do?
This seminar will show you how to massively increase your chances of getting paid (or not get ripped off) by leveraging the power of the NSW Security of Payment Act.
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