The San Francisco County Superior Court is one of the Superior Courts of California. Katherine Feinstein (daughter of Senator Dianne Feinstein) had been the presiding judge of the court for twelve years, through 2012.Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee was elected the new presiding judge on June 27, 2012. The court has 52 judges and one commissioner.

Blum Capital Partners employs a value-oriented investment approach that seeks to invest in securities they believe are undervalued in the markets. The firm provides investment advisory services to various pooled investment vehicles (\"private funds\"). The private funds include private equity funds (\"strategic funds\") which invest in public and private securities, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The private funds also include funds that Blum Capital establishes on a transaction-by-transaction basis (co-investment vehicles) to invest in a single security or transaction, either alone or alongside one or more of the strategic funds. Blum Capital invests on behalf of the strategic funds and co-investment vehicles in both public and private companies through a variety of formats including public strategic blocks (large stakes in public companies typically acquired through the open market), structured minority transactions, and control transactions. Investments are typically longer-term (2-3 years or longer) and may include unregistered debt, preferred equity securities, or convertible equity or debt securities of public or private companies, as well as common equity securities. While in the past, some of the private funds' guidelines allowed investments in publicly traded options, futures and derivatives for true hedging purposes, the private funds generally have not invested in such instruments, and the firm doesn't expect them to in the future.