(Subscription required) "People are gonna start being being embarrassed by not doing it if they feel that their legal services can be enhanced with the assistance of AI," said Supreme Court lawyer Adam Unikowsky.

(Subscription required) Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl said this week she planned to restrict the names and other identifying information about the jurors in the first social media addiction trial to the lawyers in the case, but not their clients.

On Friday, the California Supreme Court denied Flores’ second appeal to overturn or reduce his conviction — his last opportunity to do so. Flores, 49, was convicted of Smart’s murder in October 2022 following a three-month trial. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison.

The congressional map approved by California voters to boost the number of House Democrats was upheld Wednesday by a divided federal court, which said they were legally drawn for political purposes and not as an act of racial discrimination, as Republicans contended.