Attorney leading Bexar County opioid litigation arrested, charged with harassment
The woman returned to the United States last month and filed for annulment of her marriage to Phipps, the warrant states. Phippsโ arrest is the latest gaffe for the attorney leading Bexar Countyโs opioid litigation. AdHis law partner, T.J. Mayes, resigned earlier this year as part of a mass exodus from the firm Phipps Mayes. A lawsuit filed in Tarrant County late last month states that Phippsโ firm owes an Arlington-area marketing company more than $344,000 for unpaid invoices. A Bexar County spokeswoman declined to comment last week on the issues surrounding Phippsโ law firm.
Bank repossesses San Antonio lawyerโs private jet
SAN ANTONIO โ Editorโs note: This story was published through a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT. A subsidiary of PNC Bank has repossessed the private jet plane formerly belonging to San Antonio lawyer Martin Phipps for failure to make payments on the loan that financed it, according to federal court documents. PNC Equipment Finance LLC sued Phipps and his former firm, Phipps Anderson Deacon LLP, in August 2020 alleging that the attorney had defaulted on $1.7 million of a loan for a Gulfstream GIV-SP. In November, PNC repossessed the plane and sold it at auction for $2.8 million, according to federal court documents. Read more on this story at the San Antonio Business Journal.