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Rudy Garza: Dual Board Certified Since 1990, With a Second Career Coaching Youth Sports

Rudy Garza earned two separate Texas Board of Legal Specialization certifications — Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law — in the same year, 1990, and has held both continuously for 35 years. Off the clock, his record includes fifteen years coaching youth baseball, basketball, and football and a stint as president of his local school district’s board of trustees. This profile is part of Awesome Attorneys’ coverage of San Antonio business litigation attorney options.

At a Glance

Origin & Background

Garza was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1977 and joined Homeberger Fuller Garza & Cohen in 2012 after previously serving as President of his own firm, Garza & Lazor, P.C. In 1990 he earned Board Certification in both Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — two separate exams and experience requirements, held continuously for 35 years. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, and Texas state courts. Earlier in his career he chaired the State Bar of Texas’s District 10A Grievance Committee (1985–87) and served as Treasurer and Director of the San Antonio Bar Association and President of the San Antonio Young Lawyers Association.

San Antonio Business Litigation Attorney Practice Concentration

Garza’s practice concentrates on fiduciary litigation, business litigation, and personal injury litigation. Mixed representation disclosure: his fiduciary and business litigation work is general commercial litigation rather than exclusively plaintiff-side, and this profile discloses that mixed posture directly rather than characterizing his broader litigation practice as one-sided, consistent with standard treatment of adversarial, non-personal-injury litigation categories.

Track Record

Garza’s public materials emphasize his sustained board certifications and Super Lawyers selections rather than an itemized settlement or verdict list. Litigation outcomes depend on the specific facts and forum of each matter; past recognition does not guarantee a particular result in a new case.

Client Voice

Garza’s public consumer-review presence is limited relative to his tenure — a gap this profile discloses directly. The stronger available signal is his near-continuous Super Lawyers selection (2003, then every year from 2006 through 2022), a peer-nomination and independent-research-based process rather than a client-star rating.

Beyond the Courtroom

Garza’s civic record is unusually extensive and long-running: President and Vice President of the Boerne Independent School District Board of Trustees (1992–99), Chairman of the United Way Allocations Panel (1985–92), a term on the San Antonio Museum Association Board of Trustees (1990–93), and fifteen years coaching youth baseball, basketball, and football (1985–2000). This is sustained, multi-decade community involvement rather than a single listed affiliation.

Recognition

Garza’s dual Board Certification — Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law, both held since 1990 — is the credential this profile treats as most significant. Holding two TBLS certifications concurrently for 35 years is a notably long, sustained credential; each requires independent recertification on its own schedule.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Fiduciary litigation, one of Garza’s specific practice areas, typically arises under the duties Texas law imposes on trustees, executors, and other fiduciaries — breaches can be pursued under common-law claims as well as, where a trust is involved, the Texas Trust Code. General business litigation claims in Texas are frequently shaped by the state’s Business Organizations Code for disputes involving corporate governance or partnership breakdowns, and by the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Chapter 17) where consumer-facing conduct is at issue. Civil Trial Law board certification, Garza’s own credential, specifically covers this cross-section of contract, business, and creditor-debtor litigation under TBLS’s own specialty definition.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Rudy Garza’s clearest strength is the rare combination of two board certifications held concurrently for 35 years, paired with an unusually deep and sustained civic record that speaks to long-term community standing beyond the practice of law itself. Near-continuous Super Lawyers recognition across roughly two decades reinforces that this is sustained peer regard, not a single strong year.

The honest trade-off, disclosed above, is that his litigation practice spans both plaintiff and general business representation rather than one clean side of the docket — appropriate and common for a civil trial generalist of his tenure, but worth confirming directly for any specific matter involving a potential conflict. His public consumer-review record is also thin relative to his experience, typical of a referral-driven senior litigator’s practice.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from Homeberger Fuller Garza & Cohen’s own website (attorney biography for Rudy A. Garza), Super Lawyers’ attorney profile, and the State Bar of Texas licensing history. Statutory references were checked against the Texas Business & Commerce Code, Business Organizations Code, and Trust Code as published by the Texas Legislature. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Rudy Garza or Homeberger Fuller Garza & Cohen Incorporated prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Rudy Garza or Awesome Attorneys.