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Business Law Attorneys in San Francisco, California

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

San Francisco is a city of roughly 808,000, and its business law matters are heard at the San Francisco County Superior Court: Civic Center Courthouse. 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.

Deadlines shape these cases before merits do · 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.

This page is the San Francisco chapter of the registry's statewide record · Business Lawyers in California collects every county and city.

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 · 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.

Business Law · San Francisco roster

4,364 active attorneys with an address of record in San Francisco list business law 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 (4,364), litigation (3,337), employment (1,898), intellectual property (1,774) and real estate (1,288). 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. Business law is two crafts: transactional work (forming the company, negotiating and drafting contracts, raising money, buying or selling a business) and dispute work (suing or defending over a contract, a partnership falling-out, a trade secret). Say which you need. For a transaction, ask whether defined tasks can be done at a fixed fee and how the attorney works with your accountant. For a dispute, weigh whether the attorney has tried or arbitrated cases of your size and subject matter, and their read on venue: county superior court, a complex-litigation department, or contractual arbitration. Bring the contract, the formation documents and the correspondence trail to the first meeting.