Kurt Zaner

Kurt Zaner is a Denver personal injury lawyer at Zaner Law Personal Injury Lawyers who represents people facing catastrophic injuries and significant losses. His practice includes truck accidents, motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, electrocution injuries, oil and gas explosions, and wrongful death claims. Zaner focuses on complex cases involving corporations and other defendants, using extensive trial experience to investigate liability, develop evidence, and present serious injury claims before judges and juries.

Zaner earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, graduating in the top seven percent of his class and earning Order of the Coif membership. He received the ABA and American Law Institute Best Graduate Award and served on the University of Florida Law Review. Zaner also earned a B.A., cum laude, in Roman History from the University of Florida and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After law school, Zaner served as a federal law clerk to U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in the Southern District of Florida. His later trial work has produced substantial results in catastrophic injury cases, including a $30 million verdict for a worker injured in a fracking explosion, a $16 million premises liability verdict involving electrocution and CRPS, a $10.6 million electrocution recovery, and a $4.3 million trucking accident verdict.

Kurt Zaner is active in trial lawyer organizations at both the state and national levels. He has served on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice and on the board of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. Zaner has also been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs and frequently teaches trial advocacy, legal writing, discovery strategy, and courtroom presentation to attorneys nationwide.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Zaner Law Personal Injury Lawyers
• Board of Governor, American Association of Justice
• Member, Colorado Trial Lawyer’s Association

Licensed State

• Colorado
• Florida

Education

• University of Florida, Levin College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Florida
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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