Niven & Smith, LLP is a San Francisco law firm founded in 1977. The firm focuses on real estate and commercial litigation, business transactions, landlord-tenant matters, and mediation. The firm represents commercial and individual clients throughout the California Bay Area. Its attorneys handle disputes at the trial and appellate levels while assisting clients with business and real estate transactions.
Niven & Smith, LLP handles real estate disputes involving purchase and sale agreements, title and escrow issues, partnership disputes, easements, and broker-related claims. The firm represents plaintiffs and defendants in litigation and works on related arbitrated matters. Its business practice includes entity formation, contracts, governing documents, leasing, ownership issues, transactions, purchases and sales, and business dissolutions.
Niven & Smith, LLP represents landlords and tenants in commercial and residential matters. Its work includes evictions, unlawful detainers, lease disputes, rent control issues, habitability claims, security deposits, tenancy buyouts, wrongful evictions, and Rent Board proceedings. The firm’s attorneys draw on decades of real estate experience when addressing disputes involving property owners, tenants, brokers, businesses, and real estate investors.
Niven & Smith, LLP maintains its office in San Francisco and serves clients across the Bay Area. The firm’s attorneys have extensive litigation, transactional, and appellate experience, with real estate forming a substantial part of the practice. Partner Stanley W. Smith maintains an active mediation practice involving real estate and business disputes. It combines courtroom advocacy, negotiated resolutions, transactional guidance, and alternative dispute resolution across its core practice areas.
