Partner

Jack

Storti

email: jack.storti@bhgrlaw.com | vCard

CONSTRUCTION LAW | LITIGATION + ARBITRATION

Jack provides expert counsel throughout the life cycle of his construction industry clients’ projects.

Jack helps his clients negotiate and draft construction contracts, work through the claim and project administration process, and when necessary, resolve disputes in arbitration and litigation. His clientele ranges from mid-size businesses to Fortune 500 and ENR Top 400 Contractors and Specialty Contractors.

CONSTRUCTION LAW

Jack has experience with heavy infrastructure, highways, bridges, and vertical construction projects. He represents clients in all segments of the construction industry, including design-builders, general contractors, subcontractors, specialty contractors, owner/developers, and suppliers. He is skilled in structuring, drafting, and negotiating construction and commercial contracts for a variety of projects and delivery models, including EPC, Design Build, CMAR, and Design-Bid-Build. He also negotiates and drafts subcontracts, supply agreements, purchase orders, master services agreements, joint venture agreements, and other types of construction and development-related project documents for his clients. Once a project is underway, Jack helps his clients navigate the project administration process, claim preparation and submission and engages in economical and prompt resolution of project claims and disputes.

LITIGATION + ARBITRATION

When project claims cannot be resolved in the ordinary course, Jack acts as legal counsel for his clients in state and federal court, as well as in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the International Chamber of Commerce, JAMS, and Judicial Arbiter Group. Jack also serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association on the Construction Industry Panel.

He litigates a variety of construction claims, including claims involving schedule impacts, delay, disruption, acceleration, labor productivity, sequencing, and inefficiency. In addition, Jack litigates claims involving breach of contract, warranty, performance guarantees, multi-party construction defect claims, termination and wrongful termination, differing site conditions, defective specifications, design errors and omissions, cardinal change and change orders, acceleration, extra work, and payment disputes.

More About Jack

In keeping with his business background, Jack serves on BHGR’s Management Committee.

EDUCATION + ADMISSIONS

EDUCATION

J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law

B.S.M., Tulane University, Freeman School of Business (cum laude)

ADMISSIONS

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit 

Colorado 

Idaho

ASSOCIATIONS

American Bar Association

Colorado Bar Association

American Arbitration Association (Construction Panel)

Construction Forum (Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Contract Documents, and Government Construction Divisions)

Society of Construction Law, North America

PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS

Jack presented What to Do When a Good Project Goes Bad at the Rocky Mountain Construction Summit (2018). He also routinely presents seminars to his construction clients’ project management and executive teams on current topics.

PUBLISHED CASES

Weinstein v. Colborne Foodbotics, LLC, 302 P.3d 263 (Colo. 2013).

OUT + ABOUT

Jack grew up in Boise, Idaho. He volunteers and serves on the Board of Directors of Underdogs, a non-profit animal rescue organization. Jack enjoys golfing, being in the mountains, and hiking with his wife Megan and their pack of foster dogs.