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Top 25 Biglaw firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 186 biglaw firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,405 professional contacts across them, including 8,053 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (923 companies); San Francisco has 186.
This list covers biglaw firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest biglaw firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,066 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orrick is a global law firm focused on serving the Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure, Finance and Life Sciences & HealthTech sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,846 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the only full-service law firm with offices and attorneys in all 50 states, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani delivers maximum value to our clients by combining the resources of a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 462 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hanson Bridgett LLP is a full service Am Law 200 law firm with more than 200 attorneys across California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rimon is a highly selective entrepreneurial firm that combines the dynamic client service, teamwork and agility of a high-end boutique law firm with the deep multidisciplinary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farella Braun + Martel LLP is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keker, Van Nest & Peters is a trial-practice litigation firm located in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Like most respected firms, we have many ways to tout our skill, our experience, and our results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scale LLP is a national, full-service law firm designed for modern business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shartsis Friese LLP is one of San Francisco’s leading law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Some of the largest companies in the world, and some of the wealthiest families in America, value and respect the service, creativity, and commitment of the attorneys of Sideman &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bartko LLP is a mid-size firm dedicated to strategic representation of clients in California, nationally and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From inception, SSL has embraced an innovative law firm model that has enabled us to provide extraordinary service to our clients at lower hourly rates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rogers Joseph O'Donnell is a litigation boutique founded in 1981 by a group of attorneys who believed - and continue to believe - that smaller is smarter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Listed on Bloomberg Law's DEI Framework and named a Forbes Top Trusted Corporate Law Firm, EGHB is a nimble team of trial lawyers who handle complex matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Silicon Legal Strategy provides targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP is a leading investment management law firm known for providing top-tier, innovative, and collaborative legal solutions for complex financial services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hassard Bonnington, founded over a century ago, is a highly regarded litigation firm known for consistently and successfully advocating for our clients in cutting edge complex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia and a law practice that spans the country, Dhillon Law Group’s business and constitutional law practice spans business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, P.C, is a San Francisco law firm with leading national and international practices, representing entities and individuals across a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The attorneys of Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP combine their skills in business, family law, real estate, corporate, business litigation, alternate dispute…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a boutique full-service law firm based in San Francisco, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The lawyers at HUGO PARKER have a winning record at trial, providing clients with sound strategic advice and skilled trial and appellate representation before state and federal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Conrad | Metlitzky | Kane is a trial boutique led by a trio of former Assistant United States Attorneys.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inventus is an innovative global law firm which provides superior legal services to entrepreneurs, startups, and mid-sized companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biglaw firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biglaw firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biglaw firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biglaw firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biglaw firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 186 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biglaw firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “biglaw firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biglaw firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biglaw firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 8,053 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Biglaw firms by metro in the United States
- Biglaw firms in New York923
- Biglaw firms in Los Angeles409
- Biglaw firms in Chicago388
- Biglaw firms in Houston315
- Biglaw firms in Dallas279
- Biglaw firms in Atlanta245
- Biglaw firms in Washington230
- Biglaw firms in Miami222
- Biglaw firms in San Diego176
- Biglaw firms in Boston169
- Biglaw firms in Austin140
- Biglaw firms in Denver133
- Biglaw firms in Seattle117
- Biglaw firms in Irvine115
- Biglaw firms in Philadelphia112
- Biglaw firms in Minneapolis100
- Biglaw firms in Tampa92
- Biglaw firms in Phoenix90
- Biglaw firms in Portland90
- Biglaw firms in Coral Gables88
- Biglaw firms in New Orleans84
- Biglaw firms in Fort Lauderdale82
- Biglaw firms in Birmingham81
- Biglaw firms in Cleveland69
- Biglaw firms in Columbus64
- Biglaw firms in Raleigh62
- Biglaw firms in Pittsburgh61
- Biglaw firms in Charlotte60
- Biglaw firms in Newport Beach60
- Biglaw firms in Kansas City59
- Biglaw firms in Las Vegas59
- Biglaw firms in Nashville59
- Biglaw firms in Boca Raton57
- Biglaw firms in San Antonio56
- Biglaw firms in Wilmington55
- Biglaw firms in San Jose54
- Biglaw firms in Orlando53
- Biglaw firms in Milwaukee52
- Biglaw firms in Fort Worth50
- Biglaw firms in Baltimore49
- Biglaw firms in Columbia49
- Biglaw firms in Indianapolis49
- Biglaw firms in Sacramento48
- Biglaw firms in Jacksonville47
- Biglaw firms in Salt Lake City47
- Biglaw firms in Oklahoma City45
- Biglaw firms in Pasadena45
- Biglaw firms in Scottsdale44
- Biglaw firms in Beverly Hills43
- Biglaw firms in Tulsa39
- Biglaw firms in Cincinnati38
- Biglaw firms in White Plains38
- Biglaw firms in Detroit35
- Biglaw firms in Richmond35
- Biglaw firms in Troy35
- Biglaw firms in Buffalo34
- Biglaw firms in Omaha34
- Biglaw firms in Springfield33
- Biglaw firms in Charleston32
- Biglaw firms in Rochester31
- Biglaw firms in Garden City30
- Biglaw firms in West Palm Beach30
- Biglaw firms in Santa Monica29
- Biglaw firms in Albany28
- Biglaw firms in Costa Mesa28
- Biglaw firms in Lafayette28
- Biglaw firms in Little Rock27
- Biglaw firms in Madison27
- Biglaw firms in New York City27
- Biglaw firms in Newark27
- Biglaw firms in Grand Rapids26
- Biglaw firms in Providence26
- Biglaw firms in Hartford25
- Biglaw firms in Honolulu25
- Biglaw firms in Knoxville25
- Biglaw firms in Oakland25
- Biglaw firms in St Louis25
- Biglaw firms in Walnut Creek25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biglaw firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many biglaw firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 186 biglaw firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most biglaw firms?
New York leads the United States with 923 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (409) and Chicago (388). San Francisco has 186.
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 8,053 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 186 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.