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A Utah lawyer who missed client deadlines and didn’t tell the client about a motion to dismiss was suspended for one year.

A civil contempt charge for a Delaware lawyer who violated a court order by commenting after his client’s trials on the actions of a prosecutor and an alleged rape victim was upheld by the state’s highest court.

Gilead Sciences Inc. and two former sales managers have settled a False Claims Act suit accusing the company of engaging in a kickback scheme to induce physicians to increase hepatitis drug prescriptions.

EVO Inc., which provides downhole video camera services to oil and gas companies, must pay more than $179,000 to a group of field engineers, after the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday they were misclassified as exempt from overtime.

Pennsylvania changed an anti-harassment ethics rule for lawyers after a judge found that certain provisions were unconstitutional on free speech grounds.

Finjan Inc. must pay Juniper Networks Inc. $5.9 million in attorneys’ fees and costs in a patent infringement suit the court previously called a “fiasco” that “wasted a great deal of everyone’s time and energy.”

Documents filed by Michael Avenatti to prove that he qualifies for court-appointed counsel must be unsealed, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said.