Buck Beltzer

Buck is a professional engineer turned construction lawyer. He develops strategies to turn around troubled projects and, when disputes are unavoidable, steps in to help resolve them. Buck has successfully tried cases before juries, arbitration panels, and judges. These disputes have involved contract scope, schedule delays, project impacts, standards of care, and construction defects on commercial, infrastructure, and energy projects in both the private and public sectors. He has represented parties involved in various delivery method agreements, including design-bid-build, CM/GC, target price, design-build, ESCO, incentive-based, and P3. Buck has resolved complex, multi-party, and multi-tier disputes involving significant financial damages.

Buck is actively involved in several industry associations. He holds a leadership position in the ABA Forum of Construction Law, currently serving on the Governing Committee and as Chair of the Marketing Committee. Locally, he contributes as a board member of the DBIA and serves on the Legislative Committee of the Colorado Contractors Association.

His peers have recognized him as a top lawyer in his field. He is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers and has been named Colorado’s Lawyer of the Year three times by Best Lawyers for Construction Law and Construction Litigation. Denver’s 5280 Magazine has also named him the Top Construction Lawyer.

Before becoming a lawyer, Buck worked as a civil engineer in Colorado and North Carolina, specializing in transportation infrastructure and major interchange projects. His team designed several high-profile projects, including the University Boulevard interchange as part of Denver’s design-build TREX project and the roadway and ramp improvements for the FedEx handling facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is licensed as a professional engineer in Colorado.

Buck holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Auburn University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver, where he graduated Order of the Coif, received several American Jurisprudence awards, co-founded the Construction Law Society, and served as an Associate Editor of the Law Review.