Membership programs

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

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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 

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

Apply for Premium Membership

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

Apply as a small firm

Solo attorneys are eligible for these benefits with their borrowing card.

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.