San Francisco County Superior Court.
Every San Francisco case routes through the superior court at some point — for filing, for hearing, or for courtesy-copy delivery. Here's the lay of the land.
Main courthouse
The primary civil courthouse for San Francisco County. Most filings, courtesy copies, and affidavit drop-offs route through this address.
400 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102
~140K filings/year
Notable divisions
The civil docket splits across multiple courthouses. We route courtesy copies and stage rush filings out of the closest division to your defendant.
- Civic Center CourthouseHall of Justice (850 Bryant)Children's & Family Division
What makes this county different.
San Francisco is a city-county — 47 square miles, no separate cities, one superior court system. The compression makes drive-time short, but service is hard for the opposite reason: dense high-rise residential (Rincon Hill, SoMa, Mission Bay), doorman buildings with strict acceptance protocols, and corporate HQs in the Financial District where registered-agent service via CT Corp or the Secretary of State is often more reliable than chasing in-house counsel. Sub-service via doorman is accepted under CCP §415.20 with diligence documentation.
Common challenges we plan for
- Doorman buildings (Millennium Tower, One Rincon Hill, Lumina) restrict floor access and require concierge to accept
- SoMa and Mission Bay tech offices have hot-desking layouts — defendants often have no fixed workstation
- Outer Sunset, Outer Richmond, and the Excelsior have garage-entry homes where the front door isn't street-facing
- Parking is its own diligence factor — meter feeding and ticket risk are real costs we absorb into the flat rate
- Transient SRO and supportive-housing addresses in the Tenderloin require courier-style coordination with building staff
San Francisco's key cities.
The cities where we see the highest service volume. Each one has its own page with local courthouse, service patterns, and a flat-rate quote.
San Francisco
809K residents
The only city in the county and the entire service region. We cover all 11 supervisorial districts, from the Marina to the Bayview, and routinely serve high-rise residences in SoMa and corporate offices in the Financial District. Civic Center Courthouse turnaround for affidavit filing is among the fastest in the state.
Serve in San FranciscoEvery city in the county.
Coverage: 1 cities
San Francisco is a consolidated city-county, so this county is geographically a single city. We serve every neighborhood: Marina, Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Financial District, North Beach, Chinatown, SoMa, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, Mission, Castro, Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, Glen Park, Excelsior, Visitacion Valley, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Western Addition, Hayes Valley, Tenderloin, Civic Center, Haight-Ashbury, Cole Valley, Inner and Outer Sunset, Inner and Outer Richmond, Sea Cliff, Presidio, and Treasure Island.