Clifford E. Fried

PRACTICING SINCE 1985

 

Clifford has been a real estate lawyer for over 30 years focusing his practice on leasing law, rent control, and occupancy issues. He has handled hundreds of trials and appeals in his career. He 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.

Clifford’s practice has been focused on real estate litigation and the defense of the rights of landlords. He has done this by representing his clients in trial and appellate courts, at mediations, arbitrations, Rent Board hearings, and planning and labor commissions. Furthermore, Clifford 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. Beyond this, Clifford regularly contributes essays, Q&As, and articles to San Francisco Apartment Magazine, East Bay Rental Housing Magazine, and other Bay Area newspapers and magazines, having written hundreds of articles, and he regularly presents legal updates to the Bar Associations of Alameda and San Francisco counties. He also gives lectures to Bay Area realtors, property managers, and landlords. In this, Clifford wishes to express his interest in and concern for the rights of Bay Area realtors, property managers, landlords, and property owners.