Clifford Fried

Clifford Fried has been a real estate lawyer for over 35 years focusing his practice on leasing law, rent control, and occupancy issues. He has handled most real estate litigation matters through hundreds of trials and appeals in his career. Mr. Fried’s practice focuses on real estate litigation and the defense of the rights of landlords. He represents his clients in trial and appellate courts, at mediations, arbitrations, Rent Board hearings, and planning and labor commissions. Mr. Fried has handled cases related to real estate fraud, construction defect claims, foreclosures, partition actions, disability access cases, easement cases, border disputes, transaction disputes, tenancy-in-common disputes, warranty of habitability lawsuits, claims of wrongful eviction, and more.

Mr. Fried graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He later graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1984 and has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since.

Mr. Fried lectures on various real property issues and writes for several local apartment magazines and publications. He maintains the highest ratings by Avvo and Martindale-Hubbell and was named a Super Lawyer by San Francisco Magazine. Mr. Fried has contributed hundreds of essays, Q&As, and articles to San Francisco Apartment Magazine, East Bay Rental Housing Magazine, and other Bay Area newspapers and magazines. He also regularly presents legal updates to the Bar Associations of Alameda and San Francisco counties. Additionally, Mr. Fried gives lectures to Bay Area realtors, property managers, and landlords.