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A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Who Is Also a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Inside R L Wilson Law Firm, the 28-year San Antonio real estate and water law practice led by native San Antonian Trey Wilson — an attorney who also holds a Texas real estate salesperson license and sits on real estate trade-organization committees, alongside a nearly 500-review record that is unusually large for a boutique practice.

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

R L WILSON LAW FIRM — AT A GLANCE

Sources: sa-law.com and sanantoniorealestatelawyer.com (firm websites), Birdeye, Experience.com, TrustAnalytica, LinkedIn. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A Native San Antonian’s 28-Year Real Estate and Water Law Practice

Trey Wilson was born and graduated high school within a mile of the Bexar County Courthouse. He earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law, founding R L Wilson Law Firm and building a practice now in its 28th year. In 2008, the Texas Real Estate Commission licensed Wilson as a real estate salesperson — a dual credential that distinguishes him from attorneys who practice real estate law without direct licensure in the industry itself.

THE MODEL

A Boutique San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Practice With an Unusually Large Review Base

R L Wilson Law Firm operates from a single San Antonio office in the Park on Blanco Road office complex. Law partner Jim Spivey was named to the Texas Super Lawyers Top 50 Central/West Texas list in 2025. Reviews consistently name front-office staff member Jennifer Flanagan and attorney Chris Sabala alongside Wilson himself, suggesting the practice functions as a genuine team rather than a solo operation despite Wilson’s name recognition.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Concentrates

Wilson’s practice spans both real estate transactions and litigation: boundary and easement disputes, nuisance and flooding claims, restrictive covenant enforcement, partition actions, contract and earnest-money disputes, real estate fraud, title conflicts, landlord-tenant disputes, and TREC complaint defense for real estate professionals. His water law practice covers groundwater rights, permitting, and related disputes. He also advises real estate brokerages and individual agents as general counsel on TRELA and TREC compliance matters — a niche informed directly by his own real estate license.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

Wilson has handled matters in approximately 60 Texas counties plus Maricopa County, Arizona, and Staten Island, New York, per the firm’s own materials; Awesome Attorneys did not have access to independently verified case-outcome data and did not locate an itemized results table on the firm’s site.

CLIENT VOICE

A Genuinely Large, Strongly Positive Review Record

With 478 Birdeye reviews, R L Wilson Law Firm has one of the largest review volumes Awesome Attorneys has encountered among San Antonio real estate practices of its size, with a 4.64/5.0 average on Experience.com and 4.9/5.0 on TrustAnalytica. Reviewers consistently describe organized, responsive service, with one reviewer specifically praising staff member Jennifer’s ability to track down hard-to-find documents before a closing. One independent aggregator noted that “some clients express concerns about the challenges faced in specific cases, indicating that not all issues may be resolved smoothly” — a general caveat rather than a specific complaint, which Awesome Attorneys discloses directly rather than omitting.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Deep Involvement in the Real Estate Industry Itself

Wilson is an active member of the Texas Association of Realtors and the San Antonio Board of Realtors, and was named to the Texas Realtors Professional Standards Committee in 2017, the same year R L Wilson Law Firm was named “Affiliate of the Year” by the San Antonio Metropolitan Area Chapter of the National Association of Residential Property Managers. This level of embeddedness in real estate trade organizations, beyond simply representing clients in the industry, is a genuine differentiator.

RECOGNITION

Peer-Ballot Recognition, No TBLS Certification

Wilson has been repeatedly named by Scene in SA Magazine as one of San Antonio’s “Best” Attorneys for Real Estate Litigation, Real Estate Transactions, and Environmental Litigation — a distinction the publication states is based on peer review and ballots cast by experienced local attorneys, distinct from pay-to-play marketing programs. Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Wilson. Consistent with this publication’s standing policy, the words “specialist” and “board certified” are not applied to his practice on that basis.

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 real estate brokerage conduct separately regulated under the Texas Real Estate License Act (TRELA) and enforced by the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC). Texas water rights follow a hybrid system combining riparian surface-water doctrine with a permit-based groundwater framework administered by local groundwater conservation districts — a genuinely specialized area distinct from general real estate practice. None of this is legal advice; real estate and water-rights disputes are consequential and fact-specific enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Boutique San Antonio Real Estate Attorney With Genuine Industry Embeddedness

R L Wilson Law Firm’s clearest strength is the combination of Wilson’s own real estate salesperson license, deep trade-organization involvement, and a review volume (478 on Birdeye alone) that is unusually large for a firm of its size — a strong signal of sustained client satisfaction over time. The honest limitation is the absence of independently verified TBLS board certification, and one general caveat from an independent aggregator that not every case resolves smoothly, though without specifics attached. 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 attorney with genuine, licensed real estate industry experience — not just legal representation of the industry from the outside — particularly for disputes touching brokerage conduct, water rights, or complex title and boundary issues.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio real estate attorney profile draws on the firm’s own websites (sa-law.com and sanantoniorealestatelawyer.com), Birdeye, Experience.com, and TrustAnalytica reviews, and LinkedIn as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to independently verified case-outcome data. 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 R L Wilson Law Firm 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.