Edward Havas (Ed), President and a founding member of Dewsnup, King & Olsen, focuses his practice on representing survivors and families of victims in negligence, product liability, air crash, mining disaster (such as the deadly Crandall Canyon coal mine collapse of 2007), medical malpractice and other catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. His professional experience is rounded out by numerous relevant activities, which include being Vice President of The Brain Injury Alliance of Utah, chairing medical malpractice pre-litigation panels, and acting as an arbitrator in medical malpractice and injury cases. He is listed on the U.S. District Court's approved panel of mediators, where he volunteers his time to mediate federal cases. Mr. Havas graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in political science from Weber State University in 1979. He earned his juris doctor degree in 1981 from the University of Utah College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif legal honor society. He was admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of Utah and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1981, and to the United States Supreme Court in 2013.
