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Clause & Collect
- Contract Terms Indemnity Clause in a Contract: Reading the Liability Cap An indemnity clause with no cap can put a year of your income on the table over a client mistake. How to read both clauses and what to ask them to change.
- Collections Sending an Invoice to Collections vs Factoring: The Math A 30% agency fee, a 3% factoring fee that works out near 43% a year, or a write-off. The break-even sums for an overdue freelance invoice, written out.
- Scope & Change Orders Number of Revisions: Defining a Round, Billing the Rest Two rounds included is the easy half of the clause. What counts as one round, who gets to send comments, and how the extra ones end up on an invoice.
- Freelancer Protection Laws Can an Independent Contractor File a Wage Claim? Six Offices A state wage claim desk usually can't take a contractor's unpaid invoice. Six city and state offices can. What each form asks, and what happens next.
- Collections How to Collect a Judgment From a Business: Levies and Liens The court will not collect it for you. Where a business client keeps its money, which levy or lien reaches it in four states, and what each step costs.
- Scope & Change Orders How to Deal With Scope Creep: Say Yes and Bill It The quick favour is almost never refused. It gets answered slowly, or answered with a yes that never names a price. This is the reply that names one.
- Freelancer Protection Laws Freelance Contract Law by State: Who Must Put It in Writing Seven US states and cities force a written freelance contract, at four different dollar figures. Which one covers your job, and where the complaint goes.
- Back Office Am I an Employee or Independent Contractor? Three Tests Your contract sets your hours, bars you from competitors, then calls you a contractor. Three tests read those clauses, and one is mid-rewrite in 2026.
- Invoicing & Terms Invoice Late Fee Laws by State: What's Enforceable A late fee only bites if a clause put it there. Where 1.5% a month sits against five state ceilings, and the interest that runs when your contract says nothing.
- Contract Terms Work Made for Hire: What You Are Handing Over The nine categories in 17 U.S.C. 101, the fallback assignment hiding behind the label, and the two California statutes that turn it into employment.
- Contract Terms Kill Fee and Termination for Convenience: How to Size Them AIGA prices a convenience termination at 25% of the project fee; the Graphic Artists Guild model says 50%. The arithmetic for sizing yours.