Founded in early 2001, Greenstein & McDonald is the most successful tenant law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, if not the State of California. We have secured more than $70,000,000 for our clients in over 18 years! Our financial success for our tenant clients is unprecedented. Experienced and aggressive, the lawyers of Greenstein & McDonald are dedicated to tenant justice, having already helped more than 20,000 tenants.
We are tenacious, savvy, and importantly, well-resourced in the prosecution of cases for tenants. We treat each client with compassion and honest respect. Greenstein & McDonald has assisted tenants with eviction defense and other issues over the years, although our primary focus at this time involves suing landlords for the harm they cause to tenants by breaching their duties.
Claims may include: failure to provide a habitable/livable unit, wrongful eviction, retaliation, discrimination, harassment, fire cases, wrongful death, breach of contract, nuisance (includes mold/lead paint), interference with quiet use and enjoyment, fraud, personal injuries, violating rent ordinances, or any other violation of the law by a landlord.
We are tenacious, savvy, and importantly, well-resourced in the prosecution of cases for tenants. We treat each client with compassion and honest respect. Greenstein & McDonald has assisted tenants with eviction defense and other issues over the years, although our primary focus at this time involves suing landlords for the harm they cause to tenants by breaching their duties.
Claims may include: failure to provide a habitable/livable unit, wrongful eviction, retaliation, discrimination, harassment, fire cases, wrongful death, breach of contract, nuisance (includes mold/lead paint), interference with quiet use and enjoyment, fraud, personal injuries, violating rent ordinances, or any other violation of the law by a landlord.
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Greenstein and McDonald is passionate about justice and we fight for the rights of tenants.
We bring our vast experience, sterling reputation and skillful resources to bear in every case.
Landlords throughout the Bay Area often think they are above the law, and they do their best to circumvent any number of local or state laws.
There are many landlords who believe that it is acceptable to retaliate against tenants for asserting their rights.
Other landlords try to squeeze as much money as they can out of a property without maintaining it.
We bring our vast experience, sterling reputation and skillful resources to bear in every case.
Landlords throughout the Bay Area often think they are above the law, and they do their best to circumvent any number of local or state laws.
There are many landlords who believe that it is acceptable to retaliate against tenants for asserting their rights.
Other landlords try to squeeze as much money as they can out of a property without maintaining it.
Since 2001 Greenstein & McDonald has prosecuted numerous tenant lawsuits throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond including cases for wrongful eviction, harassment, habitability and defective conditions as well as multiple-unit tenant cases.
Our settlements and verdicts in tenant actions alone total more than $70 million.
In 2018, after three years of litigation and on the eve of trial, Greenstein & McDonald secured the largest settlement of a single case for tenants in Northern California history and the second largest in state history.
Our settlements and verdicts in tenant actions alone total more than $70 million.
In 2018, after three years of litigation and on the eve of trial, Greenstein & McDonald secured the largest settlement of a single case for tenants in Northern California history and the second largest in state history.
Ken Greenstein is an attorney who co-founded Greenstein and McDonald in 2001, a law partnership in San Francisco.
He is in his 20th year as an attorney and he has been assisting Bay Area tenants for more than 20 years.
In 2004, he was the lead counsel on the largest tenant settlement in Bay Area history for nearly 14 years in the amount of $3,825,000 and he has been instrumental in many of the largest verdicts and settlements attained by Greenstein and McDonald.
Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a paralegal for many years, including managing the Oakland Eviction Defense Center for nearly two years.
He is in his 20th year as an attorney and he has been assisting Bay Area tenants for more than 20 years.
In 2004, he was the lead counsel on the largest tenant settlement in Bay Area history for nearly 14 years in the amount of $3,825,000 and he has been instrumental in many of the largest verdicts and settlements attained by Greenstein and McDonald.
Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a paralegal for many years, including managing the Oakland Eviction Defense Center for nearly two years.
A landlord must first serve some type of notice to quit before they can actually evict you.
It is a myth that a landlord will have the sheriff's office come and throw you out after the notice expires.
In San Francisco, the notice to quit must be filed at the SF Rent Board.
The notice to quit in SF must state the just cause for eviction if the tenancy falls under the SF Rent Ordinance.
Some of the exceptions are if the tenancy is in a cooperative, or the tenant lives with the landlord or it's a boarding house.
It is a myth that a landlord will have the sheriff's office come and throw you out after the notice expires.
In San Francisco, the notice to quit must be filed at the SF Rent Board.
The notice to quit in SF must state the just cause for eviction if the tenancy falls under the SF Rent Ordinance.
Some of the exceptions are if the tenancy is in a cooperative, or the tenant lives with the landlord or it's a boarding house.
If a tenant has not done anything that breaches the lease, one of the only ways a landlord can permanently evict a tenant is via an owner move-in eviction (OMI).
OMI evictions have very complex laws and they are different in the various Bay Area cities that have them.
We have handled a large number of these type of cases in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, so if you are being evicted by your owner and they are claiming an owner or relative move-in, call us for a free consultation.
In addition, if you have already moved out pursuant to an owner move-in notice and you believe that the owner or relative has not actually moved in, contact us immediately especially since there is a statute of limitations from the date you believed the owner or relative of the owner did not move into the subject property.
OMI evictions have very complex laws and they are different in the various Bay Area cities that have them.
We have handled a large number of these type of cases in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, so if you are being evicted by your owner and they are claiming an owner or relative move-in, call us for a free consultation.
In addition, if you have already moved out pursuant to an owner move-in notice and you believe that the owner or relative has not actually moved in, contact us immediately especially since there is a statute of limitations from the date you believed the owner or relative of the owner did not move into the subject property.
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