San Antonio Business Law Attorney

John K. Boyce III is a business law attorney with over 40 years of experience in the formation and maintenance of business entities, and has crafted extensive commercial transactions and agreements for companies and family-owned businesses of all sizes and types.

Professional Licenses

Admitted to the Texas Bar, 1978

U.S. District Court | Western, Southern, and Northern Districts of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals | Fifth Circuit

Former Registered Investment Advisor | Texas Securities Board (Series 65 license) (Currently Inactive)

AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Professional Associations

Past Chair, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, State Bar of Texas

Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators (Director)

Member, Association of Attorney Mediators (AIM)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

Chair, Texas Arbitration Council

Member, State Bar of Texas Minimum Continuing Education Committee, 2016-2022 (Chair 2019-2022)

Association of Attorney-Mediators (AAM)

College of the State Bar

Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

San Antonio Bar Association

Texas Monthly "Super Lawyer"

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Commercial Panel (Large Complex Case and Securities Panels) | American Arbitration Association (AAA)

International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute) | Banking, Accounting & Financial Services Panel, Hedge Fund Subpanel

American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)

Financial Industry Regulatory Panel (FINRA)

Adjunct Professor | Strauss School of Dispute Resolution | Pepperdine University School of Law

Education & Honors

University of Texas at Austin
Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Year (1974)
B.A., Economics, with High Honors (1975)

University of Texas at Austin
Juris Doctor (1978)

Case Studies

COUNSEL TO A FAMILY BUSINESS

One of my long-time clients is an old West Texas family with significant holdings in ranching, oil and gas, investments and insurance. While they have been in business more than a century, many of their investments, managed by trusts from the 1940s and 1950s, continue to operate. Generally, members are the trustees of various trusts...read more.

TRANSFORMING A NON-PROFIT

I was asked to chair the Search Committee for a new executive director of a century-old non-profit organization with a $2.5mm+ operating budget, a sizable staff, a high profile in the community, and significant assets, including a large endowment and a for-profit apartment complex on its grounds. The organization had been racked by terribly bitter...read more.

– John K. Boyce III