b'The COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturn and Presidential election dominated the national news of 2020. But three cases of the Richard Harris Law firm topped Nevada legal news. Partners Ben Cloward and Ian Estrada tried the case of Salazar v. Sportsmans Royal Manor in February 2020. 23-year-old Dylan Salazar was gunned down in his car in the parking lot of the apartment complex in an attempted carjacking. While both killers are serving life sentences for the senseless murder, a Las Vegas jury decided there wasadditionalblameontheownerofthepremises. Therewasahistoryofviolentcrimeontheproperty goingback20years,includingassaults,batteries, robberies and other homicides. There simply were not enough guards on site for the size of the property. The security guard on duty the day Salazar was shot, had his own felony charges pending. The guard could have prevented the murder by trespassing the shooters off the property hours earlier, but chose not to. He said, I was outnumbered, and you got to pick your battles. Cloward told the jury he felt the guard was allowing the crime, by looking the other way. The jury awarded Salazars family $38.6 million.In August 2020, The Nevada Supreme Court in a 7-0 decision, upheld the jury verdict in the Richard Harris Law Firm case of Chernikoff v. First Transit, Inc. The case involved the death of Harvey Chernikoff, a mentally disabled 51-year-old who choked to death while riding a RICK para-transit bus for the handicapped on his way to work MESSAGE FROMat a sheltered workshop. The transit company had rules against eating and drinking on the bus and required the bus driver to scan interior mirrors every five seconds; rules that were both broken by the driver. Harvey began eating his sandwich and the driver of the bus not only allowedhimtoeat,butassistedhiminviolatingthe companys policy. Harvey sat in the seat directly behind'