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Boutique corporate law firms in San Francisco

Every startup needs a lawyer before it needs an office, which is why San Francisco supports 244 boutique corporate law firms alongside the giants. The firms here are the ones the giants' pricing creates: startup counsel doing formations and financing rounds, technology transactions specialists, and corporate generalists serving companies too small for BigLaw rates. Each firm was verified by hand - real, active, and doing the work its focus tag shows.

The sample below is free. The full directory carries working links for every firm, named contacts where published, practice-area filters, and the outreach tracker for a proper applications campaign.

88
Startups / Venture
70
Corporate
40
Commercial
27
M&A

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25 of the 244 firms on the list

FirmFocusTeam size
Access International CounselStartups / Venture11-50
Ashbury LegalStartups / Venture11-50
BANIJAMALI LEILACorporate11-50
Benjamin Weill & MazerCorporate11-50
BENJAMIN, WEILL & MAZER, A PROFESSIONAL CORP.M&A11-50
BEVERAGE LAW GROUP, LLPCommercial11-50
BIALSON, BERGEN & SCHWAB, A PROFESSIONAL CORPCommercial11-50
BraunHagey & Borden LLPCorporate11-50
Brubaker Law LLPStartups / Venture11-50
Buhler Duggal & Henry LLPPE / VC11-50
Carr McClellan P.C.Corporate11-50
Charter Law Group LLPCommercial11-50
Clean Energy Counsel, LLPCorporate Finance11-50
Cleantech Law PartnersCorporate11-50
Coda Law Group LLPCommercial11-50
Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLPPE / VC11-50
CrandonLawStartups / Venture11-50
Dhillon Law Group Inc.Corporate11-50
Dudnick Detwiler Rivin & Stikker LLPCommercial11-50
Emran Law FirmM&A11-50
Entrepreneur Law Group LLPStartups / Venture11-50
Farallon Law Group LLPCorporate11-50
Ferrari OttoboniCorporate11-50
Friedman & Springwater LLPCommercial11-50
Gamma Law, Professional CorporationStartups / Venture11-50

Ordered by team size, then name. Websites, LinkedIn pages, search and filters are in the full directory.

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What counts as a boutique here

Independent firms practising corporate law in San Francisco: startup and venture counsel, financing and M&A boutiques, technology transactions and specialist corporate shops. Most have fewer than twenty lawyers and no structured hiring process at all.

BigLaw is excluded on purpose, as are high-street generalists whose work is mainly personal rather than corporate.

Full detail on sourcing and verification is on the methodology page.

Common questions

How many boutique corporate law firms are there in San Francisco?

FirmScope currently tracks 244 in San Francisco, and the count is computed live from the database.

Why apply to boutique firms instead of BigLaw?

Boutiques hire when workload demands it, not on a recruiting calendar - and a well-aimed email to a named partner is usually the entire process. Competition per seat is a fraction of the OCI funnel.

Are contact details included?

Where a firm publishes a named person or a direct inbox, the paid directory carries it, labelled by how it was sourced. The public page shows names, size and focus only.

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