Lawyers in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT and Claude the four questions a buyer asks when looking for lawyers in San Francisco, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 24 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 24
- Businesses named
- 54
- Named only once
- 37
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 14 of 17
- Named again on a rerun
- 25%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for lawyers in San Francisco, ChatGPT and Claude most often named Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (25% of answers), Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (21%) and Morrison Foerster LLP (21%). Across 24 answers they named 54 different businesses, 37 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.
The ranking
Share is the fraction of the 24 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | Share | ChatGPT | Claude | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | 95%: 12 to 45% | 25% | 25% | 2 of 4 | 3.3 |
| 2 | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger | 95%: 9 to 41% | 17% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Morrison Foerster LLP | 95%: 9 to 41% | 25% | 17% | 2 of 4 | 2.4 |
| 4 | Farella Braun + Martel LLP | 95%: 9 to 41% | 33% | 8% | 2 of 4 | 2.8 |
| 5 | Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP | 95%: 7 to 36% | 25% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 1.3 |
| 6 | Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP | 95%: 7 to 36% | 17% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 7 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | 95%: 7 to 36% | 17% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 2.8 |
| 8 | Fenwick & West LLP | 95%: 4 to 31% | 8% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 9 | DLA Piper LLP | 95%: 4 to 31% | 8% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 4 |
| 10 | Coast Family Law | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 11 | Morrison Foerster | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 12 | GJEL Accident Attorneys | 95%: 2 to 26% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 13 | The Barnes Firm | 95%: 2 to 26% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 14 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 15 | Cooley LLP | 95%: 2 to 26% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 3.5 |
| 16 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 3.5 |
| 17 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 4 |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 37 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farella Braun + Martel LLP33% | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP25% |
| 2 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP25% | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger25% |
| 3 | Morrison Foerster LLP25% | Morrison Foerster LLP17% |
| 4 | Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP25% | Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP17% |
| 5 | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger17% | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP17% |
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/lawyers/san-francisco"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/lawyers/san-francisco.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Lawyers in San Francisco, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1Who is the best lawyer in San Francisco?
- 2I'm getting divorced in San Francisco. Which family lawyer would you recommend?
- 3I was injured in a car accident in San Francisco. Which personal injury lawyer should I call?
- 4Which law firm in San Francisco would you recommend for a small business?
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 24 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
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Edition September 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0