Daniel strives to provide strategic and pragmatic guidance that helps his clients navigate contentious conflicts and find creative solutions to complicated problems.

Biography

Daniel (Danny) Shickich is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. A dynamic litigator with experience in both state and federal courts, Danny helps policyholders and the insurance industry resolve disputes involving insurance coverage and bad faith, including property, health, casualty, business liability, and professional liability coverages. He also assists members of the healthcare industry with contractual, regulatory, and compliance disputes, as well as administrative law proceedings. In addition, Danny represents a variety of clients, including municipalities, in complex litigation. Danny assists his clients with all facets of pending and active litigation, including pre-suit advice and negotiation, discovery, motions practice, mediation, trial, and appeal. Throughout, Danny strives to provide strategic and pragmatic guidance that helps his clients navigate contentious conflicts and find creative solutions to complicated problems.

Before joining Ogden Murphy Wallace, Danny served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where he gained significant trial and appellate litigation experience. He received his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. During law school, Danny also externed for the Honorable Jim Rogers and Honorable William Downing in King County Superior Court. Prior to law school, Danny honed his persuasive writing skills as a copywriter developing marketing materials for a large technology company.

Danny spends his time outside the office enjoying the beauty of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children, cheering on a Seattle sports team, or jogging around his North Seattle neighborhood.

Danny is admitted to practice in Washington, the U.S. District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.


  • King County Bar Association
  • Washington State Bar Association
  • Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
  • J.D., University of Washington School of Law
  • B.A., Pomona College
  • Recognized as a Washington “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine, 2020-2023
  • Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, 2022-2024