Denver, CO · measured July 26, 2026

Which law firms does AI recommend in Denver?

We asked ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity to recommend law firms in Denver, CO — 6 hiring questions, 18 recorded answers, every one saved. They named 43 different businesses. These are the 19 that came up more than once.

Bachus & Schanker, LLC appeared most often, in 7 of 18 answers. 18 other businesses also appeared more than once.

AI recommendation openness 67/100 · mixed · All 30 markets ranked

Definition: openness measures how spread out the business names were in these 18 answers. Higher means more dispersed; lower means more concentrated. It is not market saturation, demand, or a quality score.

The measured shortlist

The 19 law firms that came up more than once.

Ordered by how many of the 18 answers named them. This is not a ranking of quality and none of these are our clients — it is a record of who three assistants surfaced for Denver, CO on July 26, 2026. If you are one of the law firms in this market and you are not on this list, that is the gap.

  • Bachus & Schanker, LLC Named in 7 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity
    For: best personal injury lawyer, best client reviews, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Zaner Law (Zaner Harden / Zaner Law Personal Injury Lawyers) Named in 4 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best client reviews, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Frank Azar Car & Truck Accident Lawyers Named in 3 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best personal injury lawyer, best client reviews
  • Law Offices of Jeremy Rosenthal Named in 3 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity
    For: best personal injury lawyer, best client reviews, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • The Harris Law Firm Named in 3 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house
  • Hogan Omidi, P.C. Named in 3 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity
    For: best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house
  • Zaner Law Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best personal injury lawyer, best client reviews
  • Denver Personal Injury Lawyers® / Denver Trial Lawyers Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini, Perplexity
    For: best personal injury lawyer, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini
    For: best personal injury lawyer, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Ramos Law Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini
    For: best personal injury lawyer, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • The Sawaya Law Firm Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini
    For: best personal injury lawyer, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • CGH Injury Lawyers Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best client reviews, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • The Wilhite Law Firm Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Perplexity
    For: a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Frank Azar Car & Truck Accident Lawyers (Franklin D. Azar) Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Perplexity
    For: best client reviews, a rear-end collision with the insurer calling
  • Ciancio Ciancio Brown, P.C. Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house
  • Griffiths Law PC Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini
    For: best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house
  • GEM Family Law Named in 2 of 18 answers · by Google Gemini
    For: best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house
  • Springer & Steinberg, P.C. Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Google Gemini
    For: best criminal defence attorney
  • Denver Personal Injury Lawyers® Named in 2 of 18 answers · by ChatGPT, Perplexity
    For: best client reviews

Even Bachus & Schanker, LLC does not win everything here. It was never named when we asked about best family law attorney, a separation with a shared house or best criminal defence attorney. Those question types returned different names in our sample.

All three assistants agreed on 3 of them

Bachus & Schanker, LLC, Law Offices of Jeremy Rosenthal, Hogan Omidi, P.C. were named by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity alike. Agreement across three systems that read different sources is the strongest position available in this sample. In Denver, that happened for 3 businesses.

The market behind the answers

One employer law office per 599 county residents.

Denver County holds 1,192 offices of lawyers with payroll — one for every 599 of its 713,734 residents, among the densest legal supply in this study. Separately, the assistants named 43 firms for Denver, and directories supplied 40.1% of the citations behind those answers. The office count and recommendation pattern are different measurements; neither causes the other.

City figures: American Community Survey 2019-2023 5-year estimates, Denver city, Colorado. County figures: County Business Patterns 2023, Denver County; establishment counts include only businesses with paid employees. The two boundaries are different sizes and are never divided into each other.

What we would do about it

In Denver, the evidence sits on justia.com.

None of this is a ranking you can buy into. The assistants named whoever was easiest to verify and safest to repeat, and in Denver they read justia.com and avvo.com to decide it. Fixing that is the same work in every market, so it is written up once: what we build for law firms.

Where the answers came from

For Denver, the source cited most was justia.com.

All three assistants searched the web before answering and cited what they read. Across the Denver, CO answers they cited 137 sources. These are the ones they leaned on most — the pages actually deciding which law firms get named here:

  • justia.com11
  • avvo.com7
  • coloradolaw.net5
  • superlawyers.com5
  • lawleaderboard.com5
  • reddit.com5
  • hoganomidi.com5
  • expertise.com4
  • harrislawcares.com4
  • profiles.superlawyers.com3
  • ramoslaw.com3
  • youtube.com3
  • attorneys.superlawyers.com3
  • griffithslawpc.com3
  • colo-law.com3
  • martindale.com2
  • wtotrial.com2
  • zanerhardenlaw.com2
  • cghlawfirm.com2
  • bestlawfirms.com2

Directories and review sites accounted for 40.1% of what was cited for Denver. In this market the aggregator profiles are doing much of the recommending, so a thin or inconsistent listing is not a cosmetic problem here — it is the evidence being read about you.

The full record

Everything else the Denver scan turned up.

24 more were named exactly once

These came up in a single answer, from a single assistant, and never again across the other 17. That is the honest shape of Denver: a handful of businesses named repeatedly, and a long tail mentioned once by chance. Visibility that appears here and nowhere above will not survive the next re-run.

  • Bowman Law
  • Matlin Injury Law
  • Dan Caplis Law
  • Harding & Associates
  • Epstein Patierno, LLP
  • Littman Family Law
  • The Law Office of Michael F. DiManna LLC
  • Modern Family Law
  • Duncan Family Law
  • The Law Offices of Rodger C. Daley and Associates
  • Colorado Legal Group
  • Jones Law Firm, PC
  • Women's Divorce & Family Law Group of Colorado, LLP
  • Kardon Law
  • Ridley, McGreevy & Winocur
  • Taft Law
  • Tiftickjian Law Firm, P.C.
  • The Law Office of Jacob E. Martinez
  • Reisch Law Firm
  • Premier Defense
  • Recht Kornfeld, P.C.
  • Evergreen Attorneys
  • Fuicelli & Lee, PC
  • Conduit Law

How many each assistant would name

  • Google Gemini 30 law firms named in Denver
  • ChatGPT 17 law firms named in Denver
  • Perplexity 13 law firms named in Denver

The assistants disagreed on 3 of 6 questions

Asked the identical question about Denver, 3 of 6 comparisons produced no shared business at all — three assistants, three separate shortlists. There is no single "AI answer" for this market to optimise against, which is why being named by one assistant tells a Denver owner very little about the other two.

11.1% of answers named nobody at all

In 2 of 18 answers the assistant declined to recommend anyone and pointed the buyer at a directory or a list of things to check instead. Those are answers where no Denver business won anything.

The rest of the study

Same questions, other markets.

The law firms study puts all five cities side by side — which brands cross city lines, and which sources decide the answer trade-wide.

Law firms in the other cities we measured

  • Las Vegas, NV 45 named · most cited: Naqvi Accident Injury Law
  • Tampa, FL 48 named · most cited: Morgan & Morgan (Tampa office)
  • Phoenix, AZ 40 named · most cited: Kelly Law Team Phoenix
  • Austin, TX 50 named · most cited: McMinn Law Firm

Other trades in Denver

Method

Exactly what we asked in Denver.

  • Who is the best personal injury lawyer in Denver, CO? commercial
  • I was just rear-ended in Denver, CO and the other driver's insurance is calling me. Which local law firm should I contact? situational
  • Who is the best family law attorney in Denver, CO? commercial
  • My spouse and I are separating in Denver, CO and we own a house together. Which local attorney should I hire? situational
  • Who is the best criminal defense attorney in Denver, CO? commercial
  • Which personal injury law firm in Denver, CO has the best client reviews? commercial

Method. 6 questions × 3 assistants = 18 answers for Denver, CO alone, collected July 26, 2026 from ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini), Google Gemini (gemini-flash-latest), Perplexity (sonar), with web search enabled because that is what a buyer's app does. Names were resolved across spelling variants first, so one company spelled three ways counts once. Assistants are non-deterministic; this is one dated run, not a standing ranking. The full methodology gives the prompts, the scoring formula, and what these numbers cannot support. Want it for your own business? The free AI visibility report runs it against your market.

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