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Landlord–Tenant Attorneys in San Francisco, California

Looking for a tenant rights lawyer near you in San Francisco? Explore the San Francisco County record for landlord–tenant attorneys on the State Bar of California's official roll and review each profile for yourself.

San Francisco is California's only consolidated city and county; its superior court hears civil matters at the Civic Center Courthouse, and the city hosts the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the State Bar of California's headquarters. For landlord–tenant cases, venue ordinarily lies with the San Francisco County Superior Court: Civic Center Courthouse · which is why counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

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 San Francisco 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 · San Francisco County

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco.

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

For San Francisco: San Francisco County Superior Court: Civic Center Courthouse.

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 · San Francisco roster

289 active attorneys with an address of record in San Francisco list landlord–tenant among their practice areas on the registry, out of 17,779 active attorneys whose address of record is in San Francisco.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by San Francisco attorneys are business law (4,365), litigation (3,337), employment (1,899), intellectual property (1,774) and real estate (1,289). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

15 of the 17,779 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 1,697 of the 17,779 active attorneys in San Francisco, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (1,145), French (836), Chinese (824) and Japanese (580). Attorneys themselves confirmed Spanish (1); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in San Francisco. 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 San Francisco