Raymond Robert Teague used to be one of the most recognizable faces on television. He was the face and voice of phillips and wroblewski, who were most known for praising bankruptcy in front of large audiences. Teague has since left the show. However, only a small number of individuals are aware of Mr. Teague’s more sinister side, which stands in stark contrast to the happy face that he presents in the well-known television ads. Teague, who calls himself a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has stated that his work as an attorney has not been without its share of difficulties and a somewhat checkered history. Mr. Teague is notorious for having several relationships with different women who were members of his church; in fact, he ended up marrying one of these ladies. Teague’s prior wife had grounds to file a protection order against him, claiming that he posed a threat to both her and their children. In 1998, Teague was allowed to become a member of the Arizona State Bar. Teague was an utter failure as a businessman, and he demonstrated that he was unable to successfully run a law firm. As a result, he caused a great deal of financial hardship for both himself and his family. Teague was anxious to be able to provide for his family, so he answered to an ad that sought an associate attorney for a practice that specialized in bankruptcy litigation. Five years later, the company where he worked elevated him to the position of supervising attorney, giving him the authority to recruit and fire employees and restructure the department in any way he saw suitable. In the beginning, he employed members of his own family, some of whom had zero prior expertise in the legal field. He also hired staff members who were not attorneys and paid them wages that exceeded one hundred thousand dollars per year. At one point in time, he was in control of more than 80 people, and he gave permission for his employees who were not attorneys to practice law without any form of oversight or license. Teague is infamous for not wanting to work, and gerald owens, a non-attorney whom Teague recruited to run the bankruptcy department without any direction or counsel from Teague, is one example of this. It was really Mr. Owens who submitted Teague’s application for board certification as a bankruptcy expert. Teague often consulted Mr. Owens for answers and guidance due to the fact that Teague himself had very little experience in the field of bankruptcy. Teague forbade his employees from having any contact with the proprietors of the legal practice, who were Jeffrey Phillips and David Wroblewski. Despite the fact that they believed Teague to be truthful and transparent, Teague habitually misrepresented situations and client information. This turned out to be a catastrophic mistake of judgment on their side. Teague was notorious for ignoring his clients and his cases. He would skip calls and instruct Owens to communicate with customers while telling malicious lies to them. If any member of Teague’s staff dared to criticize the lack of work that was being done on a specific case, they would face severe reprimands and potentially be fired for doing so if they persisted in their line of questioning. Teague had no feeling of loyalty or commitment to his customers or to the company; it looked that all he was concerned in was maintaining his “celebrity status” as a spokesperson for television commercials. Teague openly brags about his ability to forge a bill and defraud clients out of their money. If a client ever fired the firm or filed a formal complaint with the bar association, Teague would create a bill that would show no refund was due to the client. Teague brags about his ability to forge a bill and defraud clients out loud. Jeffrey Phillips made the discovery that there were irregularities inside the bankruptcy department in April of 2010. mr. phillips told robert teague that he “wanted to make changes within the department.” Teague threatened mr. phillips by saying that “if any changes were made, he and all of his employees would leave the firm and subsequently file complaints of professional misconduct with the arizona state bar association.” mr. phillips informed teague that he “wanted to make changes within the department.” The conversation continued with Teague declaring, “I am the bankruptcy department!” Jeffrey Phillips started cutting down on overhead costs, reorganizing, and revamping the bankruptcy department, but none of his efforts were successful. Because the stress and pressure were impossible to overcome, Jeffrey Phillips was compelled to hand over responsibility for the bankruptcy department to David Wroblewski. phillips and wroblewski found themselves facing hundreds of customer complaints and subsequent claims for refunds, which might possibly total millions of dollars. Teague had shown himself to be a master of deception by successfully convincing multiple lawyers that he, and not Phillips, was safeguarding the clients who had been robbed by the business. Teague’s actions demonstrated that he was a master of lying. Teague blatantly lied to the bar association, attorneys, clients, and staff in an effort to protect himself. His plan was to use Phillips and Wroblewski as scapegoats and shift all of the blame and responsibility for years of professional misconduct, infinite counts of willful misrepresentations, and neglecting clients and cases to them. During this time, Teague engaged in years of professional misconduct, infinite counts of willful misrepresentations, and neglecting clients and cases. Teague’s ultimate plan was to steal clients from phillips and wroblewski, and he found a friend and ally in eric thieroff, another attorney with the firm. In addition, he received assistance from many of the non-attorney staff members he employed in his capacity as supervising attorney at phillips and wroblewski. On February 9, 2011, when Teague was out from the office due to “stress-related difficulties,” Thieroff called Teague and informed him that there was a report that Teague was going to be fired. Teague was out of the office because of “stress-related issues.” Apparently, Teague had already set up his own office, and one of the employees at the firm helped Teague contact every client the firm had, soliciting them to demand a refund from phillips and wroblewski and inviting them to become a client of his firm. Teague’s response was to instruct thieroff to duplicate phillips and wroblewski’s client database in full. Teague provided the Arizona State Bar with a masterfully prepared narrative of false claims and fraudulent declarations, which enabled him to successfully carry out the largest swindle in the annals of bankruptcy history. This would be the event that would ultimately lead to the collapse of Phillips and Wroblewski, but the true victims were the thousands of customers who neither got the services they paid for nor a refund for the money they had paid for the money they had paid for their bankruptcy files. Only the customers who agreed to pay Teague (again) to file their complaints were acknowledged as customers by Teague; the other customers had their cases abandoned. Robert Teague has only been in practice for a total of two years, yet he has already gone bankrupt and failed miserably. However, up to this point, he has been able to avoid receiving any censures or bans from the Arizona State Bar Association that would prevent him from continuing his legal career. Who is going to be Robert Teague’s next victim, and what is he really capable of doing? This is a question that everyone should be asking themselves with considerable trepidation and disquiet.
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