About Darcy Covert

Darcy Covert was born in San Francisco and attended an international school through high school, which drew her to international relations at Tufts University. After her father, a lawyer for a Catholic health system, died of cancer during her freshman year, she took a leave of absence and returned to complete her degree magna cum laude. She worked as a Wall Street investment banker, clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2022, and served as a Deputy Public Defender in King County's Misdemeanor Division before joining Stritmatter Law. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2020 and focuses on civil rights and personal injury. She co-chairs the Federal Bar Association's Western District of Washington Local Civil Rules Committee and has published on criminal law in Washington.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore

These results are credited to Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A King County jury awarded $123 million to 40 plaintiffs after five international students were killed and dozens injured when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle suffered a catastrophic axle fracture on Seattle's Aurora Bridge in 2015.

King County Superior Court, Seattle · 2019Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$42.5 millionVerdictTop 20 in Washington · #14

A Pierce County jury awarded $44.7 million to an EMT and volunteer firefighter left with permanent injuries after an SUV driver turned left through an uncontrolled intersection and into his path, a verdict Washington courts later upheld in full.

Pierce County Superior Court · 2022Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →
$28 millionSettlementTop 20 in Washington · #19

Washington state paid $28 million to a young woman left quadriplegic after her car struck an unguarded overpass pillar on I-5 near DuPont, where WSDOT had funding and a plan to install a protective barrier but never completed the work.

Pierce County (settled pre-trial) · 2018Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$21.5 millionSettlement

King County paid its largest personal injury settlement on record after a 38-year-old mother of two was mauled by two dogs the county had repeatedly been warned about but failed to remove.

King County (settled pre-trial) · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$10 millionSettlement

Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore secured a $10 million settlement from the City of Seattle on behalf of more than 50 protesters who were struck by blast balls, tear gas, and other crowd-control weapons deployed by Seattle Police Department officers during the May and June 2020 George Floyd demonstrations.

King County Superior Court, Seattle · 2024Civil RightsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Yale Law School
J.D., 2020
Tufts University
Undergraduate, 2015

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.