Sally Piskun
Top rated Construction Litigation attorney in Boulder, Colorado
Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP
Practice areas: Construction Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Business & Corporate
Licensed in Colorado since: 2004
Education: University of Houston Law Center
Selected to Rising Stars: 2011 - 2017 Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP
1712 Pearl StBoulder, CO 80302 Phone: 303-402-1600 Email: Sally Piskun Visit website
CONSTRUCTION LAW
Sally represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in all aspects of construction law. She works on large, sophisticated, multi-million dollar public and private commercial, industrial, and heavy civil construction projects. She has experience in the expanding renewable energy and high-speed fiber optic markets. On the front end of projects, Sally negotiates and drafts design-build agreements, EPC contracts, master services agreements, and subcontracts. She is well-versed in contractual risk shifting, risk mitigation, and insurance law. During projects, Sally assists clients with structuring change orders and claim requests. At the end of projects, she helps her clients file and defend mechanics’ liens. She also represents clients in litigation and arbitration and has tried a wide range of construction claims, including breach of contract, change order, delay, disruption, indemnity, insurance, and loss of productivity claims. Sally has recovered multi-million-dollar judgments for her clients, including $12M in damages in a recent delay and disruption case.
EQUINE LAW
Sally has a deeply ingrained love of horses. She assists clients in all aspects of the equine industry on matters including the following: business formation, management, and operation; drafting buy/sell agreements, leases, liability releases, and other types of contracts; land acquisition; and permitting. Sally also represents her equine-industry clients in mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
LITIGATION + ARBITRATION
Sally represents business clients in federal and state courts, arbitrations, and mediations. She routinely serves as a lead trial attorney, taking the case from intake through evidentiary development, motions practice, mediation, litigation, judgment, and collection. She has managed cases with extensive discovery and ESI. In addition to construction and equine litigation, Sally handles breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, estates and trusts, fraud, insurance, product liability, trade secrets, and unfair business practices claims.
First Admitted: 2003
Professional Webpage: https://bhgrlaw.com/people/attorneys/sally-piskun/
Bar / Professional Activity
- ABA ICLC Employment Subcommittee Chair
- Boulder County Bar Association, Co-chair Medical Civil Litigation Section
Representative Clients
- Signal Energy, LLC v. Walker Industrial, LLC (Dallas County, TX — 2023): Secured an arbitration award and confirmed judgment totaling over $11 million on behalf of an electrical subcontractor client in a multifaceted construction dispute. The matter involved claims for unpaid subcontract balances, pending change orders, and substantial pre-award interest at 18% per annum. The opposing party recovered nothing on its affirmative claims. The award also included recovery of attorneys’ fees, costs, expenses, and interest exceeding $2 million., 2023
- D&O Coverage — Pre-Litigation Settlement: Obtained a pre-litigation settlement against a directors and officers (D&O) insurance carrier, securing recovery of defense costs incurred by a client organization as a result of a governmental investigation — avoiding costly litigation while achieving full recovery of the amounts sought., 2016
- Insurance Coverage — Bad Faith Denial: Successfully represented multiple individual and corporate policyholders in carrier negotiations following various denials of coverage, achieving a favorable settlements enabling the clients to rebuild after traumatic losses., 2013
- Multi-Million Dollar Construction Defect Settlement: On behalf of the owner of several commercial buildings, negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement against the project’s designers and contractors arising from construction defect and performance claims., 2010
- AAA Construction Arbitrations — Aggregate Recovery Exceeding $20 Million: Through multiple AAA arbitrations, litigated and recovered delay, disruption, and impact claims on behalf of general contractors and subcontractors across a range of construction projects, achieving aggregate recoveries in excess of $20 million while also defeating competing owner or contractor claims., 2025
- Breach of Contract / Bad Faith — Jury Verdict: Obtained a jury verdict on behalf of a general contractor client in a breach of contract and bad faith case, successfully invalidating a "no damages for delay" contract clause and securing recovery of delay and consequential damages that the opposing party contended were contractually barred. As the prevailing party, the client was awarded all attorneys’ fees and costs associated with successfully litigating the matter enabling the client to be made whole in its entirety., 2008
Transactions
- Served as lead negotiator on a $435 million engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreement on behalf of a national fiber optic telecommunications company providing turn-key, end-to-end digital network design, engineering, construction, and maintenance services. Successfully structured and negotiated the full scope of contract terms governing a large-scale infrastructure deployment, addressing risk allocation, procurement obligations, performance standards, and project delivery requirements across a multi-jurisdictional footprint., 2023
Educational Background
- Ms. Piskun graduated from Texas A&M University in 2000 with a B.S. in Political Science and remains a proud Aggie to this day!, 1996-2000
- Ms Piskun received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 2003 and maintains her Texas and Colorado licenses simultaneously. , 2000-2003
Industry Groups
- Banking Litigation
- Commercial And Civil Litigation
- Construction Law
- Insurance Law
Office location for Sally Piskun
1712 Pearl St
Boulder, CO 80302
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2011 - 2017