What is the Premium Services Membership program?
Attorneys and members of the legal community can expand their access to legal information with:
- Expedited services
- Access to our expert reference team
- Robust collections of legal resources
- Reference questions answered by email
- OCLC copy service for hard-to-locate materials
Benefits of membership
Get answers fast
- We'll prioritize your reference questions
- Turnaround of 4 hours or less in most cases
- Responses are comprehensive
Have resources sent to your email
- Scans from our print collection
- Pages from subscription databases
- Difficult-to-locate material from partner libraries
Advanced help from experts
Our reference team will:
- Investigate and compare potential sources
- Research legal issues to recommend useful content and context
- Navigate our extensive archive, including historical codes and regulations
- Send anonymous inquires and requests to government offices
Membership categories
We offer three levels of membership to serve the needs of the legal community:
Premium membership
Annual fee
- For firms or businesses with a San Francisco office and 10 or more attorneys
- Rate based on the number of San Francisco attorneys
Premium plus membership
Annual fee
- For national or global firms with or without a San Francisco office
- Firms with San Francisco office: Rate based on the number of San Francisco attorneys
- Firms without San Francisco office: Rate based on the number of attorneys in the firm
Apply for Premium Plus Membership
Small Firm premium membership
Free
- For solo practices and small firms with less than 10 attorneys based in San Francisco
- All privileges of the Premium and Premium Plus program apply
Solo attorneys are eligible for these benefits with their borrowing card.
Apply for membership
For program inquiries, or to schedule a tour, please contact Diane Rodriguez at (415) 554-1772. For a reply within three days please email sflawlibrary@sfgov.org.
For invoice inquiries, please contact Jean McGuinness at (415) 554-1791.
Last updated November 14, 2024