For more than a decade, Google was the default gateway to inbound leads. Law firms built content strategies around page-one rankings, and legal technology companies poured budget into paid search ads because visibility at the top of the results meant visibility in the pipeline. But that era is ending.

Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Scola Jr. of the Southern District of Florida retires on Friday after more than 30 years of judicial service in federal and state courts.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan wrote it's feasible the case could have been brought in the Texas court, and the SEC hadn't shown a link between the case and the D.C. forum other than the case being a securities matter, but Musk's argument wasn't enough to supersede courts' deference to a plaintiff's choice of forum.

Artificial intelligence startup Character.AI confirmed in a statement that it had removed several characters generated by its customizable AI chatbot platform after the Walt Disney Co. accused it in a cease-and-desist letter of infringing its intellectual property.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laura Seigle refused plaintiffs' request to move up the first trial over the Eaton wildfire to September 2026. The current date is January 2027.

The relators conveyed they plan to amend the complaint, "and they hope that Indiana Medicaid will state its concern with the alleged violations and start taking affirmative steps to recover the alleged overpayments."

U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to file timely responses to any motions seeking extraordinary relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia but otherwise paused the government's filing deadlines in other civil proceedings until after Congress reopens the government following a lapse of appropriations.

The amicus curiae brief supporting the ABA is the second filed within a week in the lawsuit that alleges the Trump administration is engaging in a policy of intimidation.

The firm claims Brooke Radford's allegations were retribution over Maurice Bellan's son ending his relationship with her.

"If this doesn't end here with Comey, and I suspect it won't, we're going to see other individual attorneys being indicted because they took a position that the government doesn't like,” noted one white-collar defense lawyer.

Court workers will continue to be paid, the memo said, because court fee balances and other existing funds can be tapped until that date. Electronic case management and filing systems are set to continue in operation.

"Most troubling, prosecutors have rushed to charge cases before properly investigating them, resulting in individuals being detained for days only to have the government voluntarily dismiss the charges against them at early hearings," U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District of Columbia wrote in a scathing opinion dismissing a criminal case with prejudice.

"Directors tell us there's a clear need for a transformative shift in how boards operate and how directors hold one another accountable," a new PwC report says.