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Business Law Lawyers in San Francisco County, California

Searching for a business lawyer in San Francisco County? Counsel for businesses: forming the company, contracts and deals, and the disputes that follow. This page indexes the county's business law coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

The state's only consolidated city and county, and the seat of the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the State Bar of California. The court of record is the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco · counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

Before comparing counsel, note the clock. Under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337, the governing period is four years to sue on a written contract; two years on an oral contract (§ 339). Fraud claims run three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)); unfair competition claims under Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 run four years (§ 17208). Contractual limitation clauses can shorten these periods.

This page is the San Francisco County chapter of the registry's statewide record · Business Lawyers in California collects all 58 counties.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Four years to sue on a written contract; two years on an oral contract (§ 339).

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337

Fraud claims run three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)); unfair competition claims under Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 run four years (§ 17208). Contractual limitation clauses can shorten these periods.

Court of record

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco.

County seat: San Francisco

Main courthouse: Civic Center Courthouse, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Help with forms without a lawyer: the court's self-help center (source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27).

Official court information, locations, and filing rules: sf.courts.ca.gov

Business Law · San Francisco County roster

4,453 attorneys on the official State Bar of California roll list business law among their practice areas with an address of record in San Francisco County.

4,350 of them hold an active licence; the remainder are recorded as inactive and are not currently eligible to practise.

The roster concentrates in San Francisco (4,435), SAN FRANCISCO (6), san francisco (2) and Emeryville (1).

18 hold a State Bar Certified Legal Specialist designation, a certification issued by the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization, and not a rating or a ranking.

For 530, the registry records a language other than English, almost always from a firm website published in that language; that describes the website, not an attorney's own ability.

Admission years on this roster run from 1963 to 2026.

The employers most represented here are Cooley LLP (100), Kirkland & Ellis LLP (72) and Latham & Watkins LLP (70).