representing design professionals, custom home builders, and subcontractors in complex litigation matters.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Cole has been practicing law for more than twenty years with a specific focus on the construction industry.
He is an experienced trial attorney representing design professionals including architects and engineers in complex litigation matters and general contractors and subcontractors in multi-party mass action construction matters.
Cole tried two of the first class action construction defect cases in Arizona, each lasting approximately six weeks. He has also successfully defended a nationally known architect in a $50 million breach of contract matter and an international engineering firm in a $20 million defective design claim. Cole obtained summary judgments and awards of attorney fees for both a national subcontractor as well as a national product manufacturer.
Being an active member in the construction and legal community is important to Cole. He was a past member of the Executive Board of the Maricopa County Bar Association’s Construction Law Section. Cole has actively worked with the construction industry in not only drafting Arizona law but also assisting the construction industry with the Arizona legislative process. He prides himself on educating his clients on Arizona law that impacts the Arizona construction industry.
Sharing his expertise with others is something Cole does well. He presents on a variety of legal matters locally and nationally to insurance and construction professionals. Cole has a proven track record of being cost conscious and thinking “outside the box” in construction litigation, which has resulted in success both in and out of the court room.
Cole has established himself as an integral part of the insurance industry based on his ability to negotiate and close claims quickly as a result of his relationships, knowledge of the law and construction industry.
MANAGING PARTNER
Cole Crabtree
Oklahoma City University School of Law
JD, 2002
University of Tulsa
BA, Political Science, 1999
EDUCATION
COURT + BAR ADMISSIONS
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2002
Arizona, 2002
Colorado, 2016
New Mexico, 2020
Heather started her career in law and always has had a love for business. She quickly caught the entrepreneurial bug and has been an entrepreneur for 20 years. For the past 14 years, she has been a business strategist and coach for successful businesses all over the world. She loves helping companies determine how to grow their business profitably and sustainably. Systems, organization, and running an efficient and effective business make her heart happy. She is thrilled to be leading this business with her husband, Cole.
CO-OWNER + COO
Heather Crabtree
Oklahoma City University School of Law
JD, 2002
Indiana State University
BS, Business Management, 1999
Education
Arizona State University
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
JD, 2015
Metropolitan State University of Denver BA, 2011
EDUCATION
COURT + BAR ADMISSIONS
Norman is an experienced construction law and construction defect litigation attorney licensed in Arizona and Colorado. His practice focuses on representing sub-contractors in construction dispute resolution and defense of construction defect claims.
Prior to going to law school, Norman was an owner of D&J Custom Electric and is a Colorado Master Electrician. This provides him with the unique ability to understand issues that contractors face. A strong believer in pro bono work, Norman managed the development and operation of a free legal services clinic for Arizona veterans.
attorney
Norman S. Fulton III
Arizona, 2015
Colorado, 2016
EDUCATION
COURT + BAR ADMISSIONS
COMING SOON
attorney
Keely Verstegen
Lisa has practiced in the areas of construction defect, property damage, insurance coverage, and construction law. She has experience defending clients through the litigation process including representation at mediations, arbitrations, and trials. Lisa has extensive experience analyzing insurance policies as well as negotiating construction contracts. She has represented developers, general contractors, and subcontractors.
Before joining Crabtree Law Firm, she worked at insurance defense firms in Phoenix, Arizona.
ATTORNEY
Lisa Streu
Arizona State University
Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law
JD, 2008
University of California, San Diego
BS, magna cum laude, 1998
EDUCATION
COURT + BAR ADMISSIONS
Arizona, 2009
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2009
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2009
John has practiced law for almost six years. Before joining Crabtree Law Firm, he worked with a small firm focusing on insurance defense and construction defect. Prior to practicing law, he held a Real Estate Salesperson license in California and was also a licensed plumber in Arizona.
John is from Powell, Wyoming where he began training in a Hawaiian martial art during his junior year of high school. He has continued to train and teach this martial art for over 30 years.
John met his wife in Mexico City and has been married for 16 years. In his free time, John enjoys hiking, playing racquetball, and traveling with his wife.
ATTORNEY
John Dewitt
School
JD Year
School
Year
EDUCATION
COURT + BAR ADMISSIONS
Arizona
New Mexico
Michelle Baskette moved to Arizona from Texas in 2017. Michelle has been a paralegal in litigation for over 30 years, during which time she has had significant trial experience in the areas of complex commercial, corporate, construction, general contract, medical mal-practice, insurance and securities disputes in both state and federal courts. Throughout her career, Michelle has worked on numerous state and federal trials and further managed cases involving immigration, criminal defense, family law, estate planning and probate.
In her spare time, Michelle enjoys traveling, hiking and exploring Arizona’s landscape with her husband and their two English bulldogs, “Jack” and “Allie.”
PARALEGAL
Michelle Baskette
Paralegal Certificate
Texas, 1994
EDUCATION
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Talyah Dworshak
Our Core Principles
CLIENT-FOCUSED
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
COMMITMENT
Our law firm prioritizes understanding and addressing the unique needs and goals of each construction client, ensuring personalized and effective legal solutions.
Clear, timely, and transparent communication is the cornerstone of our practice, fostering trust and understanding between our team and our construction clients throughout every stage of their legal journey.
We believe in working closely with our construction clients as partners in their legal journey. By fostering collaboration and mutual trust, we achieve optimal outcomes.
We are committed to helping contractors, architects and engineers with their construction legal issues while they continue to run their business.
These core principles reflect our unwavering dedication to excellence, integrity, and client satisfaction.
