Our CEO’s name is now page 1 for a lawsuit that got dropped. How do we fix that?

A dropped lawsuit on the CEO’s name SERP is one of the most common executive reputation problems and one of the more solvable. The work runs in three tracks. First, source-level remediation: most major outlets have correction or update protocols, and a dismissal or dropped case is a fact that legitimate journalism is obligated to reflect. The request goes through the publication’s standard editorial channel with documentation of the resolution. Some outlets update the original article with a postscript; some publish a follow-up that ranks alongside; some decline, and the work moves to other tracks. Third, fresh authoritative content on the executive’s current work, sustained over months, that builds the freshness and authority signals to displace the older article from the visible SERP. AIQ™ monitors AI engine narratives daily through the rebalancing because AI is often the layer where the dropped-case framing persists longest if the engines have not re-retrieved against updated sources.