Best 10 Bicycle Accident Lawyers in the US

Motor vehicle crashes killed 1,166 cyclists on American roads in 2023, and another 49,989 riders were hurt badly enough to enter the federal count (NHTSA, Traffic Safety Facts 2023: Bicyclists and Other Cyclists, July 2025). The firms below build a real practice around those claims rather than treating them as car cases with a bicycle in them.

Four criteria set the order, and a rider can check all four without making a phone call:

• what share of the practice is bicycle work
• whether the fee is published
• how the firm covers the states it claims
• what cyclist-specific law it can point to

Nothing here is paid placement, and every claim below is checkable on the firm’s own site.

The 10 Bicycle Accident Law firms

1. Bicycle Accident Lawyers Group

Bicycle Accident Lawyers Group is an attorney group that represents injured cyclists nationwide, coast to coast, and it takes bicycle and e-bike crashes rather than general injury work. It publishes its contingency fee, 33 to 40 percent, which is why it sits first, since no other firm here publishes a percentage at all. Alongside that, the group runs a free settlement calculator and a state-by-state hub of cycling law. Riders whose claim falls outside cycling need a different firm, since this one does not take them. 

Right for: riders anywhere who want the fee settled before the first meeting.

2. Bike Law

Bike Law handles bicycle crashes only, through a network of independent attorneys rather than one firm, and its directory lists lawyers across 18 states plus the District of Columbia. The network also operates the Bike Law Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3). No percentage is published, and each member attorney sets its own terms. You are retaining the member attorney, not the network. 

Right for: riders who want a cycling-only lawyer within reach of home.

3. Bike Legal

Bike Legal is organized around cycling culture, with stated partnerships across clubs, teams and junior development programs. It works twelve states, among them California, Oregon, Arizona, New York and Texas, and very few multi-state practices do cycling claims and nothing else. No percentage is published, and the firm never explains how coverage across those twelve states actually operates, so ask which lawyer holds a license where you crashed. 

Right for: club and team riders who want a cycling-only firm in more than one state.

4. Bike Accident Attorneys

Bike Accident Attorneys has represented injured cyclists since 2006 and takes nothing else. Ben Dodge and Daniel Flanzig, two attorneys with long records in bicycle claims, both work under the banner. The firm markets itself nationally, though the work concentrates in Arizona and New York and no state roster is published, so ask which attorney is licensed where you crashed. 

Right for: Arizona and New York riders who want a named attorney with a bicycle record.

5. Regan Zambri Long

Regan Zambri Long is a catastrophic injury firm with a bicycle practice area, and it covers the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, nothing beyond. It reports more than $1 billion recovered and results as high as $77 million, a self-reported figure rather than an audited one. On fees it offers the familiar “no fee unless we win” without ever committing to a percentage. 

Right for: severely injured riders in DC, Maryland or Virginia.

6. EB Cycling Law

EB Cycling Law is the cycling brand of Estey & Bomberger, a general injury firm that works California out of San Diego and publishes no percentage. It sponsored the Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis professional team in 2018, unusual for a law firm. That team has since folded, so the sponsorship language describes a past arrangement. 

Right for: Southern California riders, San Diego especially.

7. Keating Law Offices

Keating Law Offices is a Chicago injury firm with bicycle law as its lead focus, and it runs a separate Illinois bicycle law resource site. Michael Keating chairs the American Association for Justice Bicycle Litigation Committee, a peer credential rather than a purchased directory listing. The firm works Illinois only and publishes no percentage. Watch the domain, because chicagobikelawfirm.com belongs to a different firm, Cameron & Kane. 

Right for: Illinois cyclists who want the peer credential rather than the ad budget.

8. Flanzig & Flanzig

Flanzig & Flanzig is a New York injury firm with a focused cyclist and vulnerable road user practice, and it covers the five boroughs, Long Island, Westchester and the lower Hudson Valley. Daniel Flanzig founded the New York State Trial Lawyers Association Bicycle Litigation Sub-Committee and advises the New York Bicycling Coalition. No percentage is published, and riders hurt outside New York need separate counsel. 

Right for: New York riders, particularly on dooring and vulnerable user claims.

9. Aitken Aitken Cohn

Aitken Aitken Cohn is a general trial firm founded in 1972, and it works California from Santa Ana, Riverside and San Clemente with bicycle claims as one practice area among many. The firm has practiced for over 40 years, and its Orange County bicycle attorney, Casey R. Johnson, is a former competitive cyclist. 

Right for: Orange County riders who value courtroom depth over cycling branding.

10. Thomas F. Forsyth

Thomas F. Forsyth runs a solo practice devoted mostly to bicycle crash claims throughout California, and he has ridden and practiced for 34 years. A solo practitioner faces real capacity limits on a catastrophic file, set against having one lawyer throughout. His site is bicycleattorney.net, and the similar bicycleattorney.com belongs to Michael Colbach in Portland, Oregon, a different lawyer entirely. 

Right for: California riders who want the same attorney on the phone every time.

At a glance

_{Every field is published on the firm’s own site.}

Nine of the ten publish no fee

The most consequential term of your contract is the one you cannot check before you call. Contingency fees customarily run about a third before suit and rise to 40 percent once a lawsuit is filed. However, the retainer percentage is only half of it, and the half that reaches your account only shows up on a settlement statement, after case costs and medical liens. Ask for a sample.

What a cycling practice changes

Bicycle claims turn on rules that never surface in a rear-end car case: dooring statutes, three-foot passing laws, negligence per se, and the insurer’s reflex argument that a rider without a helmet caused their own head injury. A lawyer who can name the governing provision in your state during the first conversation has almost certainly litigated it before. However, the common failure is quieter than a bad argument in court, and it is usually an adjuster’s framing of fault going unchallenged in month two.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you still recover if the crash was partly your fault? In 46 states and the District of Columbia, sharing part of the blame reduces your recovery rather than ending it. DC goes further for cyclists and other vulnerable road users, whose claims survive contributory negligence under D.C. Code section 50-2204.52 unless their share of fault exceeds 50 percent.

Do you need a bicycle-specific lawyer instead of a general injury firm? Not always. A clear liability crash with modest injuries resolves the same way in competent hands. Contested fault is the dividing line, because that is where cyclist statutes, rider positioning and the helmet argument decide the number.

How long do you have to file? Deadlines are set by state law and commonly run two or three years. That window shrinks sharply when a city or state is a defendant, sometimes to written notice within 60 to 180 days. Confirm your state’s deadline early, because missing it ends a valid claim.

Before you sign

Ask five things on the first call:

• what percentage you pay before and after suit
• who signs your file if the firm is a network
• which lawyer is licensed in your state
• what cyclist statute applies to your crash
• who answers the phone in month seven

Those five answers separate these ten firms faster than any award badge or advertised recovery total.