Mechanic’s Liens
Land Use Zoning & Planning
Common Interest Community Law
Real Estate & Development
About BEK Law
Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC (formerly Wells, Love & Scoby, LLC) has been a pre-eminent construction and real estate law firm in Colorado for over forty years. Founded in 1975 by David Wells and Terry Scoby, the firm originally focused on design and construction claims and litigation, as well as mechanics’ lien work, and established a widely recognized expertise in this area. Bill Love soon joined the firm adding extensive experience in real estate law, with a particular focus on development, land use and common interest community law. Led by both its founding and current members, the firm grew in recognition, size and clientele during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Into the twenty first century, Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC has continued the firm’s tradition of high level practice in design and construction claims and litigation, mechanics’ liens, real estate development, complex commercial transactions, and common interest community law, utilizing the most modern technologies and methods.
While David Wells and Terry Scoby have retired from private practice, and Bill Love died in 2002, the current members – Craig Blockwick and David Eisenstein* – average over 40 years of legal experience in these areas. Clients include substantial residential and commercial developers; both large and small commercial and residential general contracting firms; subcontractors; architectural and design firms; public entities and municipalities; and a variety of other businesses and individuals.
The philosophy of Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC is to provide the highest levels of legal and practical expertise at a reasonable cost. In complex transactions we seek to provide necessary legal services and common-sense advice in order to promote a successful and dispute free result. Our objective in claims and litigation is first to explore and if possible achieve an appropriate resolution without trial. But if that cannot be accomplished, we will fully develop and present the claim or defense for trial and have successfully done so in cases and arbitrations in Colorado and elsewhere. Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC endeavors to keep legal expense commensurate with the amount of the claim, so that parties are litigating primarily about their dispute, and not about the attorneys’ fees they have spent on the dispute. Since the inception of Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC, these principles have well served both the firm and its clients.
*Mr. Krahenbuhl has retired and is no longer in practice.
Blockwick Eisenstein Krahenbuhl, LLC
2672 North Park Drive Suite 200
Lafayette, Colorado 80026
(303) 443-4434
Accounting
(720) 938-1629
Attorneys
Craig N. Blockwick
(303) 517-6663| cnb@bek-law.com
Since 1985, Mr. Blockwick has concentrated on construction, real estate, and land development matters at a sophisticated level.
Construction related work has included:
- lead attorney responsibility for complex construction and mechanics lien arbitration and litigation
- special counsel to various municipalities and public entities for construction claims and contracting issues
- contractual drafting, general consultation, claims evaluation and general business services for a number of substantial general contractors, including individual contracts in excess of $100M.
- representation of a wide variety of owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects, and public entities regarding construction related matters.
General real estate work includes:
- full-service representation of a substantial front range real estate company developing hundreds of dwelling units per year, including all aspects of real estate acquisition, sales, land use, construction, subdivision, condominiumization, and claims
- representation of a variety of development and business entities
- common interest community formation and representation
- private lending
- real estate litigation
Education
- Amherst College Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) 1972
- University of Virginia, JD 1976
Personal
Mr. Blockwick lives the Colorado lifestyle to the fullest, individually and with his family, wife Kathy and children Jeffrey and Alison. An active climber for more than forty years, he has pursued rock climbing, ice climbing and mountaineering throughout the US and in Canada, Alaska, and South America. Other activities include mountain biking, skiing, backcountry skiing and canyoneering. He is also a dedicated guitarist, having played in a number of bands over the years and still loves live music from opera to rock and roll (including 100+ Phish concerts!).
David G. Eisenstein
(303) 443-4434 | dge@bek-law.com
David G. Eisenstein has practiced law in Colorado since 1977 and he represents clients in real estate, common interest community development and land use matters throughout Colorado.
In 1974, Mr. Eisenstein obtained his B.A. with distinction cum laude in History of Art from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Honors College. He received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado. While attending law school, Mr. Eisenstein was articles editor of the University of Colorado Law Review. He graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in May 1977.
Mr. Eisenstein practiced law in Aspen, Colorado from 1977 through 1985. In 1985 he moved to Boulder to serve as in-house counsel for a national real estate syndication and development company head-quartered in Boulder and to coordinate the development of multifamily residential real estate projects all over the United States. Mr. Eisenstein opened his own law practice in Boulder, Colorado, in September 1986 and practiced as a solo practitioner until January 2002 when he merged his practice with and joined the law firm of Wells, Love & Scoby, LLC.
Mr. Eisenstein currently represents various homebuilders and real estate development entities primarily in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area and in the Aspen/Pitkin County/Roaring Fork Valley area but also does work throughout Colorado. In addition to land use, real estate and development law his practice includes the preparation of common interest community documents for the formation of condominiums and other common interest communities and planned developments, representation of homeowners and condominium associations and commercial and residential leasing. Mr. Eisenstein has been instrumental in helping to obtain land use approvals for many important real estate development projects in Boulder County and in Aspen and Pitkin County, Colorado.
In addition to his expertise in land use and real estate law, Mr. Eisenstein’s practice includes business law, including corporations, partnerships, contracts, buying and selling of businesses, and other commercial transactions. He has been counsel to and served on the boards of trustees of various charitable, nonprofit, tax exempt organizations, including the Aspen Art Museum. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Boulder County Bar Association and as co-chairperson of the Real Estate Section of the Boulder County Bar Association