Nicole Cannizzaro
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About Nicole Cannizzaro
Nicole J. Cannizzaro is a personal injury attorney at Richard Harris Personal Injury Law Firm in Las Vegas. She is also a Nevada State Senator since 2016 and served as the first woman Nevada State Senate Majority Leader. In July 2025, she announced her candidacy for Nevada Attorney General in the 2026 election.
Cannizzaro served at the Clark County District Attorney's Office from 2011, including as Chief Deputy District Attorney with a stint prosecuting gangs, before returning to private practice in 2022. She earned her Juris Doctor from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2010 and her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2006.
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A Clark County jury returned $38,625,000 against the owner of a Las Vegas apartment complex after National Guard Specialist Dylan Salazar was shot to death in its parking lot, the second-largest wrongful death verdict in the country in 2020.
A Clark County jury awarded $15 million after Harvey Chernikoff, an intellectually disabled paratransit rider, choked to death on a First Transit bus whose driver ignored monitoring rules and was never trained in CPR, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.
A Clark County jury awarded $8 million to Naddia Dhalai, who was rear-ended by a FedEx Ground truck on I-95 in Las Vegas in 2014. FedEx admitted fault but argued that a later, unrelated crash caused her ongoing neck and back problems. About $5 million of the verdict was for future medical care. The verdict was returned on August 26, 2022.
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