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A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney at a Firm Founded by Childhood Friends

Inside Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel, PLLC, where Kenneth Saks and Carlo Garcia handle the firm’s real estate docket — a 34-year-old San Antonio practice founded by partners who grew up together and, in several cases, attended law school together.

BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS · AUGUST 2026

OLIVA, SAKS, GARCIA & CURIEL, PLLC — AT A GLANCE

Sources: olivasaks.com (firm website), Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, Better Business Bureau. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Practice Founded on Childhood Friendship

Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel was founded in 1992 by partners who were childhood friends, several of whom attended law school together — a founding story the firm’s own materials emphasize directly. Kenneth Saks has practiced in San Antonio for nearly 36 years, focused on business, real estate, and commercial litigation for small and mid-size companies and individuals. R. Carlo Garcia, a native San Antonian, graduated from UTSA in 1991 with an accounting degree, attended St. Mary’s Law School, and has been licensed since 1994; his real estate practice spans both litigation and transactional work, with substantial experience in foreclosure defense in the Western District of Texas.

THE MODEL

A Multi-Practice San Antonio Firm With a Dedicated Real Estate Docket

Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel operates from a single San Antonio office known as “The OSGC Building.” The firm handles real estate alongside business transactions, family law, criminal defense, immigration, and estate planning, with Saks and Garcia specifically named as the firm’s real estate attorneys. This profile covers their real estate practice specifically, not the firm’s broader roster.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Team Concentrates

Saks and Garcia’s real estate practice covers both residential and commercial matters: transactions, litigation, foreclosure defense, and landlord-tenant disputes, along with real estate and commercial breach-of-contract disputes, including cases involving misrepresentations in property descriptions. Garcia’s practice additionally emphasizes foreclosure defense work in federal court.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

Awesome Attorneys did not have access to an itemized results table with specific verdict or settlement figures for the firm’s real estate docket.

CLIENT VOICE

A Strong, Independently Confirmed Record for Kenneth Saks

Kenneth Saks holds a 4.8 out of 5.0 aggregated rating across 8 Avvo and Lawyers.com reviews, with one reviewer specifically describing him as “one of the most resourceful attorneys in the San Antonio area” for both real estate and business needs, praising his empathy and attentiveness to personalized client needs. Avvo separately confirms “no misconduct found” for Saks. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a pattern of negative reviews specific to Saks or Garcia’s real estate work in the course of this research.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

An Unusual Founding Story

The firm’s origin as a practice founded by childhood friends, several of whom attended law school together, is a genuinely distinctive founding narrative among the firms profiled in this directory, and the firm’s own materials frame it as central to how partners work with clients — describing an approach that favors negotiated, non-litigious resolutions where possible over purely adversarial tactics.

RECOGNITION

A Consistent Martindale Rating, No TBLS Certification

The firm has received Martindale-Hubbell’s Distinguished® rating across multiple recent years (2021, 2025, and 2026), reflecting sustained peer regard rather than a one-time honor. Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for either Saks or Garcia. Consistent with this publication’s standing policy, the words “specialist” and “board certified” are not applied to their practice on that basis.

THE TEXAS REAL ESTATE LEGAL BACKDROP

What San Antonio Property Owners Should Know

Texas real estate transactions and disputes are governed primarily by the Texas Property Code, with breach-of-contract claims involving property misrepresentation additionally shaped by the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act in some circumstances. Foreclosure defense in federal court, a specific focus of Garcia’s practice, follows procedures under both Texas Property Code Chapter 51 and applicable federal rules of civil procedure. None of this is legal advice; real estate transactions and foreclosure matters are consequential and fact-specific enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Well-Established San Antonio Real Estate Practice Inside a Multi-Generational Firm

Kenneth Saks and Carlo Garcia’s clearest strength is decades of combined San Antonio real estate experience — 36 and 31 years respectively — inside a firm with a consistent, multi-year Martindale-Hubbell peer rating and, specific to Saks, an independently confirmed clean disciplinary record and strong review composite. The honest limitation is the absence of independently verified TBLS board certification for either attorney, and a real estate practice that operates as one part of a broader multi-practice firm rather than an exclusive specialty. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients who want an established, multi-decade San Antonio practice for real estate transactions or disputes, particularly foreclosure defense, within a firm that also offers related business and family law services.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio real estate attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (olivasaks.com), Kenneth Saks’s Avvo profile and reviews, Martindale-Hubbell ratings, and Better Business Bureau records as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to an itemized case-results table. Client reviews quoted or summarized reflect individual client experiences, not verified case outcomes.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE & INDEPENDENCE

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel prior to publication, and its inclusion here does not constitute an endorsement. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements to firms profiled in its directory; sponsorship does not alter the editorial content of an existing profile.