From appellate to magistrate courts, hundreds of judicial candidates qualified to run in the May 21 general nonpartisan primary election. As many judges’ campaigns went unopposed, at least 40 drew challengers. The Daily Report has compiled a list of the contested judicial races. While the bulk consist of probate and magistrate jurists facing…

‘See Every Failure as an Opportunity,’ Says Megan R. Nishikawa of Hogan Lovells | The American Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2024/03/13/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-says-megan-r-nishikawa-of-hogan-lovells-122024-405-137908/ Megan Nishikawa of Hogan Lovells. Courtesy photo Q&A “Your career is a marathon—not a sprint,” says Megan R. Nishikawa, office managing partner at Hogan Lovells in San Francisco, in…

The Quaker Oats Co. has been hit with a consumer class action alleging the company’s oat-based products contain toxic levels of pesticide. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.…

A U.S. district court jury in Florida has returned an indictment by a grand jury against a man for threatening to kill a federal judge in Miami. Marcus Pratt, 38, faces three counts of mailing threatening communications and three counts of influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal judge, whose…

It was a year of investment for Kansas City-founded Husch Blackwell, with the firm adding more than 110 laterals and leaning on increased head count, “incremental” billing rate increases, and steady productivity to grow revenue by more than 10%. In all, the firm’s gross revenue grew to more than $612…

Chicago-based Rabicoff Law added five telephone call-routing patent infringement lawsuits Monday to two filed the prior week in Texas federal courts. Several national restaurant chains, including Twin Peaks Restaurants LP, TGI Fridays Franchisor LLC and Wingstop Restaurants Inc. are among the defendants Rabicoff sued on behalf of Patent Armory Inc.,…