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A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Who Chairs the State Bar’s ADR Section

Inside Aric J. Garza Law PLLC, the 27-year San Antonio real estate, business, and probate practice led by an attorney who also chairs the State Bar of Texas’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section and has handled more than 5,000 arbitrations since 2014.

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

ARIC J. GARZA LAW PLLC — AT A GLANCE

Sources: sabusinessattorney.com (firm website), State Bar of Texas Find a Lawyer directory, Justia, Avvo, texasneutrals.org, nadn.org. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney With an Unusually Deep ADR Résumé

Aric J. Garza earned a B.A. in political science and communications from St. Mary’s University in 1989, a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin in 1995, and his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 1998. He was licensed in Texas in 1999 and, more recently, in Colorado in 2022. Since founding his firm in 2002, Garza has built a parallel career as a nationally recognized ADR practitioner: he currently chairs the State Bar of Texas’s ADR Section, previously chaired the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s Arbitration Committee and the San Antonio Bar Association’s ADR Section, and represents the San Antonio Bar Association in the ABA House of Delegates. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the San Antonio Bar Foundation.

THE MODEL

A Two-Office San Antonio Practice With a National Arbitration Docket

Aric J. Garza Law PLLC operates two San Antonio offices — Northwest and North Central — serving business and individual clients throughout Texas. Since 2014, Garza has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association’s Commercial and Employment panels, handling more than 200 AAA arbitrations and making determinations in over 5,000 desk arbitrations, a volume of dispute-resolution work well beyond his direct-representation caseload.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Concentrates

Garza’s real estate practice covers property disputes between neighbors, co-owners, buyers and sellers, and landlords and tenants, along with real estate development and commercial property transactions for developers, property owners, and investors. This sits alongside the firm’s broader business/commercial litigation and probate/estate administration practice areas — real estate is one of three core practice lines rather than the firm’s sole focus.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

Awesome Attorneys did not have access to an itemized results table with specific verdict, settlement, or arbitration-award figures. One reviewer described a stalled case reaching a settlement agreement with the defendant within a week of engaging Garza; Awesome Attorneys treats this as the client’s reported account rather than an independently verified statistic.

CLIENT VOICE

A Large, Strongly Positive Review Base With One Disclosable Exception

The firm’s own materials cite more than 40 five-star Google reviews at its Northwest office alone, and independent reviews describe Garza as patient and effective, including one detailed account of a difficult mediation where he “put in the time — I am talking hours” to help opposing parties reach resolution. A separate reviewer described the firm handling a commercial property issue for an out-of-state client “800 miles away” with clear communication throughout. Awesome Attorneys also located one brief negative account — “No one called me back” — among the review record, which is disclosed here directly rather than omitted, though without further detail from that reviewer to characterize further.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

A Nationally Recognized ADR Practitioner and Working Musician

Garza’s Fellowship in the American Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation, and San Antonio Bar Foundation, combined with his position representing the San Antonio Bar Association in the ABA House of Delegates, reflects sustained leadership within the organized bar beyond his private practice. Outside the law, Garza performs locally in San Antonio as “The Blues Lawyer,” playing and singing the blues at area venues — a detail that appears consistently enough across his professional materials to be treated as a genuine, ongoing pursuit rather than incidental color.

RECOGNITION

Seven Consecutive Years of “Best SA Lawyers” Recognition, No TBLS Certification

Garza has been named to Scene in SA Magazine’s “Best SA Lawyers” list for seven consecutive years as of the 2025 issue. Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Garza in real estate or any other practice area. Consistent with this publication’s standing policy, the words “specialist” and “board certified” are reserved for attorneys with documented, independently verified TBLS certification, and are not used here.

THE TEXAS REAL ESTATE LEGAL BACKDROP

What San Antonio Property Owners Should Know

Texas real estate disputes and transactions are governed primarily by the Texas Property Code, with boundary, easement, and co-ownership disputes additionally shaped by common-law doctrines of adverse possession and partition under Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Given Garza’s ADR specialization, it’s worth noting that many Texas real estate disputes can be resolved through mediation or arbitration rather than litigation, particularly where a contract contains an arbitration clause. None of this is legal advice; real estate and property disputes are fact-specific enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Real Estate Attorney Whose National ADR Standing Is the Clearest Differentiator

Aric Garza’s clearest strength is a genuinely unusual combination: a 27-year San Antonio real estate, business, and probate practice paired with national-level ADR leadership — current Chair of the State Bar of Texas ADR Section, more than 5,000 arbitration determinations since 2014, and Fellowship in three separate bar foundations. The honest limitation is that real estate is one of three core practice areas rather than an exclusive focus, and Awesome Attorneys could not verify board certification in real estate law specifically. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients whose real estate disputes might benefit from mediation or arbitration expertise specifically, given Garza’s national standing in that field, as well as clients with broader business or probate needs alongside their real estate matter.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio real estate attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (sabusinessattorney.com), Aric Garza’s official State Bar of Texas practitioner listing, Justia and Avvo reviews, and his professional biographies on texasneutrals.org and nadn.org 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 Aric J. Garza Law PLLC 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.