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Sword & Shield, PLLC

Service

Pre-Submission Records Audit

We audit your books before the state sees them and tell you whether to produce records or take the imputed penalty.

Before a single page goes to the Department, we run your payroll, bank records, 1099s and subcontractor file through the same penalty calculation the Department uses. You learn your projected records-based penalty, your imputed-penalty alternative, which payments can be removed (vendors, fabricators, exempt officers, insured subcontractors, non-construction labor), and whether anything in the records creates criminal exposure that should never be volunteered. You get a written recommendation before the 21-day deadline.

What is included

  • Projected penalty under both methods
  • List of payments that can lawfully come out of the calculation
  • Criminal-exposure screen of the records
  • Written recommendation: produce or impute
  • Credited toward full representation if you retain the firm

Pricing

$1,500. Flat fee for most employers with under 25 workers; larger payrolls are quoted after a free consultation.

How it starts

Call (850) 766-6825 or send the form. We talk through the order, the records request and the dates, and tell you honestly what we think the case needs. If it is this service, you can pay online and we start the same day; if it is something else, we say so.

If you have been served and the investigator is still there, do not fill out a form. Call.

Free consultation, 24/7

Tell us what happened. We answer around the clock.

Every message goes straight to Adrian Middleton's phone. If the investigator is still on your site, do not fill out a form: call or text the cell and put Adrian on the line with them.

  • · Do not hand over records until you know what is in them.
  • · Do not give a statement to the investigator without counsel.
  • · Do not keep working on the job site after the order is posted.

Sending this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not include confidential details until we have spoken.