1900 Grant St Suite 1050
Denver Colorado 80203
1.800.221.5526
Evan P. Banker
About Evan Banker
Evan Banker joined Chalat Hatten & Koupal as an associate after his admission to the Colorado Bar. Since joining the firm, he has second-chaired two significant trials with successful verdicts for our clients.
As a young lawyer with Chalat Hatten & Koupal, Denver, Colorado, Evan Banker has gained extensive courtroom experience. His practice with the firm emphasizes medical malpractice claims and ski accidents. Mr. Banker earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he represented low-income plaintiffs in the school's legal clinic and competed in ABA sponsored national appellate advocacy competitions, receiving special recognition for his writing. Before graduating, he gained experience working with the Hon. Robert S. Hyatt and with a major Denver civil defense firm.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Mr. Banker is an avid skier and is grateful to be able to incorporate his love of Colorado's mountain sports with his passion for representing his clients. His excellence as an advocate has been recognized by Colorado Super Lawyers, being placed on the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 list of Rising Stars.
Bar Admissions
Colorado, 2007
U.S. District Court District of Colorado, 2007
Education
University of Denver College of Law, Denver, Colorado
Doctor of Jurisprudence - 2007
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
B.A. - 2003
Professional Associations and Memberships
Colorado Bar Association, Member
Denver Bar Association, Member
American Association for Justice, Member
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Member
American Bar Association, Member
Published Works
Subrogation Rights of Health Plans Established Under ERISA, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2012
Classes/Seminars
Speaker, Vermont Law School Panel on Emerging Issues in Ski, Snowboarding and Resort Law, March 2012
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Notable Trial Experience
Client was a guest at the Cow Place Inn in Lamar Colorado. As he entered the hotel, he fell over a rock which staff had placed as a doorstop. He rolled his ankle and suffered a bimalleolar fracture requiring surgical repair. The Cow Palace denied liability but settled before the case was filed for $50,000.00.
An Idaho Springs man was awarded $18.5 million for catastrophic injuries he suffered when a driver drunk left a mountain road and slammed into him as he was laying in his driveway, changing the oil in wife's car.
A Denver jury awarded $240,400 to Ms. Carol Wilson, who slipped and fell in her hotel bathtub at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver, formerly the Adams Mark, resulting in a thoracic vertebrae fracture. Ms. Wilson’s bathroom shower was not equipped with a slip-resistant bathmat, a slip-resistant surface or a safety bar.