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A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney With an 11-Year “Best Lawyer” Streak

Inside RPSA Law’s real estate practice group, chaired by Robert A. “Bobby” Rosenthal, who has practiced real estate, banking, and finance law in San Antonio since 1985 and has been named a “Best Lawyer” for Real Estate Transactions by San Antonio Scene Magazine every year from 2014 through 2024.

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

RPSA LAW REAL ESTATE PRACTICE — AT A GLANCE

Sources: rpsalaw.com (firm website), Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, Better Business Bureau, Birdeye. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Real Estate Attorney’s Four-Decade Practice

Robert A. Rosenthal has practiced real estate, banking, and finance law in San Antonio since 1985 — four decades in the field. He chairs RPSA’s Financing Transactions and Real Estate practice groups, advising developers, investors, and non-profit institutions on the purchase, sale, lease, finance, development, and improvement of commercial real estate, as well as representing regional, national, and international financial institutions in loan transactions. He received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from UCSA San Antonio in 2010.

THE MODEL

A Business-Focused San Antonio Firm’s Dedicated Real Estate Group

RPSA Law (Rosenthal Pauerstein Sandoloski Agather LLP) is a roughly 26-attorney San Antonio firm with a broad business-law practice spanning real estate, banking, employment, estate planning, financing transactions, intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rosenthal leads the firm’s real estate group specifically, with colleague Jonathan S. Starr — a Syracuse University College of Law graduate licensed in Texas since 2001 — also concentrating in real estate alongside business/corporate and public finance matters.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Real Estate Attorney Concentrates

Rosenthal’s practice covers the full range of commercial real estate transactions: purchase and sale agreements, leasing (representing both landlords and tenants in office, retail, and warehouse contexts), development and improvement financing, and institutional real-estate and asset-based lending. He has counseled owners of large retail and industrial parks on sales and zoning matters and represented both sellers and purchasers of office buildings, business parks, and industrial parks.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

Commercial real estate transactional work does not generate the kind of jury-verdict record available in litigation practice areas, and Awesome Attorneys did not have access to closed-transaction data or deal-value figures. The firm’s own case history was not itemized in a public results table.

CLIENT VOICE

A Thin but Positive Review Record

RPSA Law holds a 4.3-star rating across 6 Birdeye reviews — a genuinely thin volume for a firm of this size and tenure, which Awesome Attorneys discloses directly. One reviewer described working with the firm “for years” and recommending it to clients, praising the staff as professional and responsive; another described a business colleague, attorney Nathan Ketterling, by name for his patience through a difficult non-profit dispute. These reviews speak to the firm generally rather than to Rosenthal’s real estate practice specifically.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Community Recognition Beyond the Courtroom

Rosenthal’s 2010 Humanitarian of the Year Award from UCSA San Antonio reflects community involvement distinct from his legal practice. RPSA’s broader practice includes representation of the San Antonio Water System, a signal of the firm’s standing with major local public-sector clients.

RECOGNITION

An Unusually Long Peer-Recognition Streak

Rosenthal’s Best Lawyer recognition for Real Estate Transactions from San Antonio Scene Magazine spans 2014 through 2024 — an 11-consecutive-year streak — and he has separately been named to Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law across the 2019 through 2026 editions, eight consecutive years. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent® rating, its highest peer designation, awarded in 2020. Consistent with the firm’s own site disclaimer that its attorneys are not TBLS-certified unless otherwise indicated, Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Rosenthal and does not apply “board certified” or “specialist” language to his practice.

THE TEXAS REAL ESTATE LEGAL BACKDROP

What San Antonio Commercial Real Estate Clients Should Know

Texas commercial real estate transactions are governed primarily by the Texas Property Code, with financing transactions additionally subject to the Texas Business and Commerce Code’s secured-transactions provisions (UCC Article 9 as adopted in Texas). Zoning and land-use questions are governed at the municipal level by the City of San Antonio’s Unified Development Code. None of this is legal advice; commercial real estate and financing transactions involving significant value are consequential enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney based on the specific facts of a deal.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Chaired Real Estate Practice With a Genuinely Long Recognition Streak

Bobby Rosenthal’s clearest strength is consistency of peer recognition over an unusually long period — 11 consecutive years of San Antonio Scene Magazine’s Best Lawyer honor and eight consecutive Best Lawyers in America editions, both independently sourced, alongside Martindale-Hubbell’s top peer rating. The honest limitation is a genuinely thin public review record (6 Birdeye reviews) for a firm of RPSA’s size and tenure, meaning prospective clients have less independently sourced client feedback to weigh than at some other firms in this directory. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients with commercial real estate, financing, or public finance matters specifically, given Rosenthal’s four-decade specialization in exactly that intersection, rather than clients seeking residential real estate representation.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio real estate attorney profile draws on RPSA Law’s own website (rpsalaw.com), Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers listings, Martindale-Hubbell ratings, Birdeye reviews, and Better Business Bureau records as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to closed real estate transaction 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 RPSA Law 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.