Edward B. Havas

About Edward

An experienced front-line trial lawyer, Edward Havas (Ed) is a founding member of Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas. Ed’s focus is on helping survivors of catastrophic injury and the loved ones of those killed by another’s wrongdoing. He is well versed in cases involving air crashes, truck crashes, construction and industrial site injuries, medical malpractice, defective products, oil/gas/mining disasters (such as the deadly Crandall Canyon coal mine collapse of 2007), and other negligence and strict liability cases. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), named by The National Trial Lawyers Association to its Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Utah and Top 10 Aviation Lawyers, is named in the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel (NADC), has been selected as a Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyer, and for years has been recognized on the Mountain States Super Lawyers list. He was recognized by the Utah State Bar with the 2024 Outstanding Mentor award. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Ed has been named one of Utah’s Legal Elite for many years and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which honored him as Salt Lake City’s Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year in 2012 and again in 2018. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in political science from Weber State University in 1979 and earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1981 from the University of Utah College of Law.

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Colleagues at Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas

David R. Olsen

Paul M. Simmons

Of Counsel

Colin King

President

Michael A. Worel

Shareholder

Tyler S. Young

Of Counsel

Ralph L. Dewsnup

Former President