about our firm

Our firm has built its strong reputation with deeds, not words. Local, regional and national clients have entrusted us with problems ranging from billion-dollar lawsuits to delicate negotiation, and the fabric of our reputation has been woven by our actions in response to those challenges. We invite you to ask our clients about us.

They will tell you that we work together to bring complex problems into focus, to adopt an effective course of action, to deliver clear and convincing messages to judges and juries, and, where appropriate, to achieve innovative alternative resolutions.

We invite you to ask other lawyers in the community about us. They will tell you that our work product is outstanding, that our integrity and professionalism are unquestioned, and that we are always prepared to go the distance but equally prepared to find a more efficient or effective path to a good outcome.

Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson was formed in 1986 by senior litigation partners from a large Seattle firm. We combine the capacity and experience available at the largest firms with the focus and teamwork of a smaller organization. In the last twenty years we have proven this over and over by effectively handling some of the most significant litigation in the region and by negotiating complex agreements either incident to, or independent of, litigation.

We invite you to sample the range of cases we have handled by perusing the brief career histories of our lawyers in the next section. They have included complex class actions, major construction litigation, securities cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars, two of the largest dissolution cases in the region, real estate matters, contract disputes, bank merger litigation, commercial insurance coverage matters, major league sports litigation involving the Mariners and Seahawks, and defense of the region's major law firms. In these cases we have acted for a range of clients, including global resource companies, national and regional enterprises, individuals and local firms.

We are equally at home representing plaintiffs and defendants; designers, contractors or owners; insurers or insureds; municipalities or those who deal with them. We do not plough blindly down a litigation furrow but seek from the start to understand the interface between the legal problem and the business or personal goals of our clients.