Partner
Jack P.
Storti
Legal Assistant
Jack Storti represents individual and corporate clients in business transactions, claim and dispute resolution, and litigation. His clients stretch across a wide range of industries, including construction, real estate, energy, technology, corporate, and finance.
Mr. Storti has considerable expertise representing clients in the construction industry. He has advised contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, owners, developers, and design professionals in transactions and claims arising out of both private and public projects. Mr. Storti has successfully litigated cases through bench and jury trials in state and federal court, as well as alternative dispute resolution forums, including the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Judicial Arbiter Group (JAG), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Mr. Storti assists many of the same construction industry clients with drafting and negotiating contracts for a variety of projects and delivery models, including EPC, Design-Build, CMAR, and Design-Bid-Build. To name a few, Mr. Storti has structured, drafted, and negotiated contracts on EPC projects up to $2.2B in value; owner-architect agreements, prime contracts, subcontracts, supply agreements and purchase orders, master services agreements, and joint venture agreements.
Mr. Storti has also represented companies and employers in disputes involving: breach of contract; wrongful terminations; change order and delay claims; commercial and oil & gas lease disputes; commercial and residential construction and design defects.
On the transactional side, Mr. Storti has drafted and negotiated a variety of commercial agreements including Asset Purchase Agreements; Energy Purchase Agreements for co-generation facilities; Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreements; Residential, Commercial, and Mineral Leases; Licensing and Distribution Agreements; Employment Agreements, Nondisclosure Agreements, and Master Services Agreements.
Mr. Storti was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. He has lived and worked in the Denver/Boulder area since 2005. Mr. Storti is licensed to practice in the State and Federal courts in Colorado and Idaho, and is a member of the American Bar Association and ABA Forum on Construction Law. Mr. Storti also volunteers and serves on the board of directors of Underdogs, a non-profit animal rescue organization. Outside of the office, enjoys getting outdoors and tags along on hikes with his wife Megan and their dogs (including the foster dogs that may be residing with them at the time).
EDUCATION & ADMISSIONS
JURIS DOCTOR
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW, 2008
B.S.M. IN FINANCE
TULANE UNIVERSITY FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, 2003, CUM LAUDE
Colorado
2008
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
2008
Idaho
2014
Professional Associations
American Bar Association (Construction Industry and Litigation Sections)
Colorado Bar Association

Jack’s Blog

Client Alert: Energize Colorado Gap Fund
As of August 31, 2020, Colorado small businesses and non-profit with fewer than 25 full time employees can apply for grants and low interest loans from the state. The Colorado General Assembly designated certain funds the state received from the CARES Act to go...

Do’s and Don’ts: Operating Agreements
Limited liability companies have many appealing qualities. Not least among them is flexibility regarding how governance, economic returns, allocations of profits and losses, and distributions can be structured. Subject to certain well-established rules,...

Legal Insight: Impacts of AB5
On January 1, 2020 California’s Assembly Bill No. 5[1] (“AB5”) went into effect. While AB5 has spurred media attention in the gig-economy, focusing on whether or not Lyft and Uber will leave California[2], the Bill also has substantial effects on the Construction...
In the News
Nichols Named Top Environmental Lawyer by 5280 Magazine
Hitting stands around Colorado is the latest issue of 5280 Magazine. Included in this issue is the announcement of 5280's ninth annual Denver's Top Lawyers list. To compile this list, the team at 5280 invites lawyers to vote for their peers. Once the votes are in,...
BHGR Welcomes Geoff Klingsporn
Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP is pleased to welcome Geoff Klingsporn to the team. Geoff Klingsporn joined the firm this month, returning to private practice after many years of representing Denver and its officers and employees in the Civil Litigation Section of...
BHGR x Community Food Share
Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti has been a long-time partner of the Community Food Share - Food Bank of Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Our partnership has been displayed in a few different ways - donations, golf tournaments, and so on - over the years, but today,...
Firm Happenings
Partner Peter Nichols Talks Super Ditch Project at the Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources
The University of Colorado Boulder hosted the 42nd Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources on June 16th and 17th. The Colorado River was the focus of this year's conference given the dramatic decline in the levels of Lakes Powell and Mead. Low Water At...
CA CLIENT ALERT: The Supreme Court Holds That Individual Claims Brought Under California’s Private Attorneys General Act Can Be Compelled to Arbitration
California employers scored a victory with the Supreme Court’s June 15, 2022 decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, Case No. 20-1573, which finds that individual claims brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) can be compelled...
Kathleen Alt Talks Remote Work and the Challenges Companies Might Already Be Experiencing
In an article published in the Daily Camera today, Monday, April 25, partner Kathleen Alt offers some updates on the complexities of remote work, particularly, out-of-state remote workers. Check out the article here*. Writer: Paula Aven Gladych Contributors: Kathleen...