SAN ANTONIO — A former driver for Cuatro T Construction alleges he and others were not paid for overtime and that the company's pay by load percentage calculations were fraudulent.
SAN ANTONIO — Sanchez Oil & Gas is facing a class action by oilfield workers claiming the company violated federal law by not paying them for overtime work.
SAN ANTONIO – Attorneys leaping from one law firm to another is a common enough occurrence, but the timing of two partners departing Phipps Deacon Purnell seems somewhat strange, as the firm is currently representing Bexar County in a billion dollar opioid lawsuit.
SAN ANTONIO – Before a hearing to permanently seal could take place, attorney Martin Phipps dismissed his lawsuit against three former employees of his, court records show.
SAN ANTONIO – If all goes as planned, Martin Phipps, one of the attorneys representing Bexar County in its opioid lawsuit, hopes to stand before a jury next October and ask them to award his client $1 billion in damages.
SAN ANTONIO - Three former employees of Phipps Deacon Purnell held on to passwords and login credentials for the firm’s laptops, computers, storage system and phone system and its not clear if they’ve returned them, according to court records.
SAN ANTONIO - A group of adult children sued the state of Florida’s governor and attorney general in Florida Northern District Court, alleging that, under court appointed guardianship, their parents’ estate, assets, 401k funds, social security money, jewelry, cars and homes are being stolen.
SAN ANTONIO – For the past two years, Baron & Budd, a toxic tort firm out of Dallas, has filed numerous opioid lawsuits all across the nation on behalf of municipalities but has been relatively quiet on its home turf.
SAN ANTONIO - A federal lawsuit filed in the Texas Western District Court concerning the rights of an 81 year old San Antonio man under court appointed guardianship has been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio attorney has vowed he will appeal against sanctions of more than $200,000 imposed on him and his clients in a case involving an incapacitated millionaire, his apparent sham marriage and adoption of his former wife's adult children.
SAN ANTONIO – An appellate court has upheld a lower court's decision in a breach of contract case, ruling that the appellant did not timely plead his affirmative defense of limitations.
SAN ANTONIO – A settlement has purportedly been reached in a defamation lawsuit brought by a Mexican woman claiming Philip Klein, a PI and blogger out of Beaumont, harassed her for years.
SAN ANTONIO – Mikal Watts, the trial lawyer who represented a convicted former state senator, will be honored by the Texas Trial Lawyers Association with a Legislative Advocacy Award at its next annual meeting.
SAN ANTONIO – Days after Hurricane Harvey hit, a law firm specializing in suing insurance companies offered to counsel school districts hammered by the storm “behind the scenes” and at “NO COST.”
SAN ANTONIO – Texas attorney Mikal C. Watts said his attempt to garner at least $150 million in attorney fees from a $1.5 billion court settlement against Switzerland-based Syngenta AG, a global agribusiness chemical company accused of damaging U.S. farmers with genetically altered corn, is justified.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio consumer alleges a Beaumont-based retail home appliance store chain keeps calling her over an alleged debt she does not owe.