Samantha Alecozay

Faculty in Residence

Biography

While attending the St. Mary’s University School of Law, Samantha Alecozay (J.D. ’20) received a pro bono service recognition and women in law leadership award. Shortly after graduation, she founded Alecozay Law Firm, PLLC, where she focuses her practice on corporate transactions, corporate bankruptcy and health regulatory law. As a Faculty in Residence, she continues to operate her practice to provide legal care to small businesses in the San Antonio community.

Alecozay is admitted to practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas and Supreme Court of Texas. She is an active member of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Bar College.

Alecozay frequently volunteers her time providing no-cost legal services to local music education programs to promote the arts. She also volunteers with non-profit professional development programs, offering educational materials and delivering guest lectures.

Alecozay’s hobbies include advanced culinary arts, sketching and maintaining her vocal skills as a former operatic performer. She is also a classic car enthusiast who regularly works on her 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 88.


Samantha Alecozay

Faculty in Residence

Education

  • J.D., St. Mary’s University School of Law, 2020
  • B.A. Music, University of the Incarnate Word, 2016

License to Practice

  • Texas

Specialties and Courses

  • Secured Transactions
  • Contract Drafting
  • Law Practice Management

Publications

  • Author: The Small Business Killer: How FinCEN Enforcement of the CTA Could Destroy the Last Bastion of the American Dream,12 Lincoln Memorial U. L. Rev. 1, 2024
  • Co-Author/Co-Presenter: Subchapter V of the Bankruptcy Code: A Breakthrough; The Hon. Larry E. Kelly Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, January 2022

Awards

  • 2025 Best S.A. Lawyer, Mergers and Acquisitions – Scene In S.A.
  • 2023 Rising Star Lawyer – Scene In S.A.

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