Darrell Cochran
About Darrell Cochran
For over three decades, Darrell Cochran has represented personal injury clients throughout Seattle, Tacoma, and Washington state, winning hundreds of cases and negotiating millions of dollars in settlements. He has taken on and defeated corporations, religious organizations, government agencies, and school districts, taking the fight for justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Darrell has appeared for argument in the U.S. Supreme Court, argued cases in the Ninth Circuit, and litigated before the Washington Supreme Court and all of its appellate divisions. He testifies and lobbies the Washington State Legislature on behalf of victims' rights and served as an Adjunct Professor teaching product liability at the Seattle University School of Law. Among his recognitions: Law360's 2021 Personal Injury Editorial Advisory Board member, Litigation Counsel of America Senior Fellow, and American Board of Trial Advocates member. He served as President of the Washington State Association for Justice from 2017 to 2018.
Notable case results
A Pierce County jury awarded William Tisdale $91 million after he was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat outside an APRO-owned Union 76 convenience store in Parkland, Washington, leaving him with multiple skull fractures and permanent cognitive damage.
A King County jury awarded $72 million to two former students of Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington, finding Monsanto liable for chronic neurological injuries caused by PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts installed in the school decades earlier.
A Thurston County jury awarded $57 million to roughly 22,000 live-in home-care providers after finding that Washington's Department of Social and Health Services unlawfully cut their pay through an automatic 15 percent reduction in authorized care hours.
Washington State agreed to pay $16.95 million to 12 former residents of the J Bar D Boys Ranch who were sexually and physically abused as children while in state custody during the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the settlement reached mid-trial after four weeks of testimony.
For Rehkter v. Washington DSHS, 2010 (named Top 100 U.S. Verdicts)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
