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Landlord–Tenant Attorneys in Irvine, California

Searching for a tenant rights lawyer in Irvine? Counsel for rentals on both sides of the lease, evictions, deposits, and habitability. This page indexes Irvine's landlord–tenant coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

Venue matters. Landlord–tenant cases from Irvine are ordinarily heard at the Orange County Superior Court: Central Justice Center, Santa Ana, serving a city of roughly 314,000. Irvine's master-planned business districts host a dense corporate and technology bar; civil matters are heard at Orange County Superior Court's Central Justice Center in Santa Ana and its Civil Complex Center, a statewide model for complex litigation.

One date controls everything that follows: unlawful detainer deadlines run in days: a three-day notice starts most non-payment cases, per Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161. A tenant served with an unlawful detainer summons has ten court days to respond (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1167). Security deposits must be accounted for within 21 days of move-out (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5). Read the record below with that clock in mind.

This page is the Irvine chapter of the registry's statewide record · Tenant Rights Lawyers in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Unlawful detainer deadlines run in days: a three-day notice starts most non-payment cases.

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161

A tenant served with an unlawful detainer summons has ten court days to respond (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1167). Security deposits must be accounted for within 21 days of move-out (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5).

Court of record · Orange County

Superior Court of California, County of Orange.

Courthouse at the county seat: Central Justice Center, 700 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701

For Irvine: Orange County Superior Court: Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Landlord–Tenant · Irvine roster

170 active attorneys with an address of record in Irvine list landlord–tenant among their practice areas on the registry, out of 5,952 active attorneys whose address of record is in Irvine.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by Irvine attorneys are business law (1,638), litigation (1,387), real estate (921), employment (840) and personal injury (758). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

10 of the 5,952 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 402 of the 5,952 active attorneys in Irvine, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (217), Chinese (147), French (135) and Japanese (115). Attorneys themselves confirmed Chinese (1) and Japanese (1); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in Irvine. Unlawful detainer practice is fast and procedural, so look for attorneys who handle evictions in your county's dedicated UD departments weekly, whichever side you are on. Tenants should ask about fee-shifting clauses in the lease, local rent-ordinance defenses, and legal-aid options given the short response windows; landlords should ask about notice drafting, most lost UD cases fail on defective notices.

Address of record in Irvine