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Edgar Carranza is a shareholder with Backus • Carranza where he represents and counsels individuals, domestic corporations and foreign corporations in several different areas of law. These areas include Employment Law, Professional Liability Defense (including real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, insurance agents, insurance brokers, chiropractors, therapists and medical physicians), Food Liability, Covenants Not To Compete, Labor Law, Recreational/Sports Law (including equine law, ski resort liability, race track liability and assault/battery involving professional athletes), Medical Products Liability, Mass Torts (including asbestos litigation, bone-screw litigation and tobacco litigation), Multi-District Litigation, Bad Faith Litigation, Insurance Defense, Premises Liability, Insurance Coverage and General Civil Litigation.

Mr. Carranza is admitted to practice before all Nevada state courts and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. He has litigated in excess of 60 jury trials, bench trials, arbitration hearings, mediations and administrative hearings. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2000) and the United States Supreme Court (2001).

Mr. Carranza was born in El Paso, Texas on January 30, 1969. He studied at Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law where he was bestowed a Juris Doctor degree in the Spring of 1994. He was also graduated in the Winter of 1990 from the University of Texas with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Government and Latin American Studies.

Mr. Carranza is an active member of several legal organizations. These include the American Bar Association (ABA) (Member, Employment Law Section), the Nevada State Bar Association and the Clark County Bar Association (CCBA). He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), where he is active in the food liability section. He is a member of and sits on the executive board of the Latino Bar Association for Southern Nevada (LBA) and a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA).

Mr. Carranza speaks, reads and writes fluently in Spanish.

Co-Author, "Fifty State Survey of FDCA-Related Tort Causes of Action," Nevada Law Section, 2001

Speaker/Lectures:

The Fundamentals of Construction Contracts: Understanding the Issues in Nevada,Las Vegas Nevada, April 2004 The conference discussed contracts in Nevada in the construction industry and included components on drafting contracts for constructions projects, prevailing wage statutes in Nevada, contractor liability for outstanding wages of subcontractors, federal and Nevada employment discrimination statutes, sexual harassment statutes and their effect in construction industry.