Tom Harold Elke

A San Francisco native, Mr. Elke has counseled thousands of Bay Area residents on tenant law and renters-rights issues. For the past five years in a row, Mr. Elke has been recognized as a Northern California “Rising Star” by SuperLawyers Magazine. He has also been honored on multiple occasions as an Outstanding Volunteer Attorney by the San Francisco Bar Association. In 2016 he was named both a “Top 40 Litigation Lawyer Under 40” by The American Society of Legal Advocates and a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” by The National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Elke received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2001 and his law degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. While in law school, Mr. Elke was active in the El Centro legal aid program and received an Imelda Rosenthal Bar Scholarship for Public Interest Law from the California State Bar. He has helped clients secure millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements and has personally tried more than twenty-five jury trials to verdict.

Harvard Univ

Undergraduate Degree

UCLA School of Law

Law Degree

Partner

Elke & Merchant LLP

2013 - Current

Adjunct Professor

California State University - San Francisco State University

2016 - 2017

Outstanding Volunteer Attorney

Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco

2015

Rising Star

Superlawyers

2012

Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco  # 203163

Member

2010 - Current

California State Bar  # 241187

Member

2005 - Current

California

Since 2005

• Free Consultation
• Credit Cards Accepted
• Contingent Fees