Lucas Buckley is a trial lawyer at Hathaway & Kunz. He represents Fortune 500 and publicly traded companies, fintech companies, and tribal nations — and law firms that retain him as their own litigation counsel — alongside investors, founders, and closely held business owners. His practice centers on commercial disputes, most often LLC and shareholder fights, securities and token-market claims, and contests over real property and mineral interests. On the planning side of those same areas, he advises owners and individuals on estate and wealth-preservation strategies, and counsels emerging companies, on entity formation, governance, and financial structuring.
His trial and litigation practice embraces the disputes that most often threaten a company’s value: ownership and control fights inside LLCs and closely held entities, breach-of-contract and business-sale claims, securities and token-market litigation, derivative actions, commercial-lending disputes, and contests over real property and mineral title. He has tried cases to verdict and judgment in state and federal court, argued appeals before the Wyoming Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit, and resolved control fights through negotiated buyouts when the better path exists outside of the courtroom. Clients turn to him for the matters where the stakes — operational, financial, or reputational — make settlement on poor terms unacceptable.
After clerking for Justice Barton R. Voigt of the Wyoming Supreme Court, Lucas has spent the next two decades building a litigation practice that increasingly sits at the intersection of commercial law and technology. He earned an LL.M. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2021, focused on privacy and emerging-technology law, and now handles matters that combine traditional commercial litigation with newer questions: derivative claims involving digital assets, alleged token-market manipulation, management and use of artificial intelligence, and the data-privacy litigation that sits downstream of all of it.
A Gillette native, Lucas appears regularly before the Wyoming Federal District Court, the state district courts of Wyoming and Colorado, the Wyoming Supreme Court, the Tenth Circuit, and the Wyoming Federal Bankruptcy Court. He is admitted in Wyoming and Colorado, and has been named to Mountain States Super Lawyers every year since 2016.
