About Beau
Beau Mayfield built a career that moves between courtrooms, corporate offices and a small downtown practice. He earned a B.A. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2005 and a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2008. Those degrees set up a path that has alternated between public-sector clerking and private-sector legal work.
Early in his legal career he worked as a law clerk at the Law Offices of Thomas Geraghty in 2007 and then served as a judicial law clerk in 2009 for the State of Hawaii, First Circuit. The clerkships gave him direct exposure to trial procedures and judicial decision-making. He moved into private practice soon after and became a partner at Mayfield and Yen, LLP in 2010. That partnership marked his first sustained run managing client work and firm operations.
In 2011 he took an in-house route, serving as Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel for GWG Holdings, Inc., a company that was listed on NASDAQ as GWGH. His role there placed him at the intersection of corporate governance, securities compliance and day-to-day legal risk management for a public company. He returned to the private sector in 2015 as a lawyer for Kroll Ontrack, a firm known for e-discovery and data-recovery services. That position broadened his exposure to litigation support and the technical side of evidence preservation.
Since 2018 he has operated the Law Office of Beau Mayfield as a small business owner and solo practitioner. Running his own practice requires him to handle both the legal work and the administrative responsibilities that come with managing a one-lawyer firm. The mix of in-house and outside counsel roles has left him comfortable advising clients on compliance, contract matters and litigation-related discovery issues.
Mayfield is licensed to practice in California and brings experience across courtroom procedure, corporate compliance and litigation support. He has worked in varied settings: a private law office, a judicial chamber, an in-house corporate legal department and a national litigation-support company. That variety informs how he approaches client problems and case strategy.
Today he operates his solo practice in California, where he applies his experience from corporate counsel roles and private practice to the matters he accepts. His current practice concentrates on corporate compliance, contracts and litigation support matters.
