About Leslie Ann
Leslie Ann Tuft is a attorney specializing in construction defect litigation and related insurance issues. She is a partner at Torbet & Tuft, LLC, located at 2 N Cascade Ave, Ste 320, Colorado Springs, CO 80903-1618. Ms. Tuft earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2001. She received the Hilmer Oehlmann Jr.
Award for excellence in legal research and writing and the Lawrason Driscoll Moot Court Award. During her time at Stanford, she also served as Co-President of the Kirkwood Moot Court program from 2000 to 2001. She was admitted to the California State Bar in 2002 and the Colorado State Bar in 2003. Her California license is currently inactive. Before founding Torbet & Tuft, Ms.
Tuft practiced law with Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. in Englewood, Colorado, from 2014 to 2023. Prior to that, she was with Sullan, Sandgrund, Perczak & Nuss, P.C. and its predecessors from 2005 until its 2014 merger with Burg Simpson. Ms.
Tuft has co-authored numerous articles and books on construction defect, insurance. Ethics issues. She currently serves as the coordinating editor for the Construction Law column of the Colorado Bar Association publication, Colorado Lawyer. She is a member of the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado Bar Association. In 2016, she was recognized as a Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Star.
