Kyle has also been recognized as an AV-rated attorney and “pre-eminent lawyer”, the highest rating assigned to individual attorneys by Martindale Hubbell, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious attorney rating service. Its ratings are assigned according to peer review and attest to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics. According to Martindale Hubbell, an AV peer review rating is a certification that marks a significant accomplishment given by a lawyer’s peers ranking him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.
For more than 30 years, Kyle Bachus has devoted his career to representing injured people and families who have lost loved ones.
He does not represent insurance companies. He does not represent large corporations. His entire professional life has been spent standing across the aisle from insurers and corporate defendants, fighting for families facing permanent and life-altering harm.
When a fatal crash, catastrophic injury, or preventable death turns a family’s world upside down, families across Colorado seek out Kyle because helping people through exactly that crisis is his life’s work.
Kyle’s authority is not grounded in slogans but in Colorado law itself. The statutes protecting injury victims and Colorado Supreme Court decisions enforcing insurance obligations exist entirely because of his work.
Kyle’s drive to advocate began in high school when he was selected to argue before a panel of licensed lawyers sitting as a mock state supreme court. Recognized statewide as one of the strongest presenters of the program, he left that experience knowing he would become a lawyer and that his work would be on behalf of people who needed a voice.
He graduated from the University of Florida College of Law and began work the Monday after graduation in a plaintiff’s personal injury firm. From day one, his career was devoted to representing injured people, never institutions.
In the mid-1990s Kyle moved to Colorado and, in 1996, co-founded Bachus & Schanker, LLC with little more than a partner, determination, and a small, rented office. Over three decades his firm has grown into one of the region’s leading plaintiff injury firms, now with more than 30 lawyers handling serious cases across Colorado and the nation.
Within his firm, Kyle narrowed his own practice to the most serious matters: catastrophic injury and wrongful death.
Credentials, honors, and professional distinctions
- America's Top 50 Lawyers - Personal Injury - Colorado - 2026
- AV Preeminent® rating, Martindale-Hubbell
- Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- Colorado Super Lawyers (Personal Injury) – 20 consecutive years
- Recognized annually among Colorado’s top plaintiff personal injury lawyers in major peer-review publications
- Lawyers of Distinction – Personal Injury Law
- Law Leaders – Personal Injury Attorney recognition
- Best of the Best Attorneys – Top 10 Personal Injury Attorney
- Lawdragon – Top 500 Leading Personal Injury Lawyers in America
- The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 – Civil Plaintiff
- Author of the bestselling book Unthinkable (also available in Spanish and audiobook)
- Co-founder of Bachus & Schanker, LLC (1996)
- Founder and leader of the firm’s Elite Litigation Group for wrongful death and catastrophic injury
- Co-chair and longtime instructor of Colorado’s annual subrogation and reimbursement seminar (since 2003)
- ColoradoBiz Media 2026 Colorado 500 Power List
Contact info:
- Phone: 303.893.9800
- Email: kyle.bachus@coloradolaw.net