Marit Eskelsen
Founding partner · Construction disputes
Marit has spent her career on the paper side of building projects: the contracts, change orders and pay applications that decide who gets paid.
Before law school Marit ran schedules for a commercial builder, so she reads a daily log the way the superintendent wrote it. She started the firm to give owners and trades the same lawyer from the lien notice through trial.
She leads the construction group and is the lawyer responsible for this site.
Works on
- Construction payment claims
- Mechanic's liens and bond claims
- Delay and defect cases
- Construction arbitration
Marit's admissions and education
Bar admissions
Utah
2001
Idaho
2008
Courts
Utah state courts
2001
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
2002
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
2006
Education
J.D., S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
2001
B.S., Construction Management, Weber State University
1994
Languages
English
Norwegian
conversational
Memberships
Utah State Bar, Construction Law Section
Away from the case files
Marit grew up in Sandpoint and moved to Salt Lake for school. She still owns the first tape measure she was given on a job site.
Weekends she cross-country skis in Big Cottonwood Canyon, and in summer she builds furniture badly and with great patience.