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. He is chairman of the Board and General Counsel for family office engaged in oil & gas, alternatives, ranching, and investments; serves on several private equity funds and non-profit boards.


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

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    John K. Boyce III
    Business Law Attorney

    John K. Boyce III
    San Antonio
    Law Attorney


    2135 E. Hildebrand
    Suite 210
    San Antonio, TX 78209

    Phone: 210-736-2224
    Email: jkbiii@boycelaw.net
    Email: jkbiii@BoyceADR.com