William Foster
William Foster, Associate
Phone: (415) 278-7919
Fax: (415) 433-4816
Bill Foster represents clients in insurance coverage and bad faith matters. A Sacramento native, Bill attended the UC Davis School of Law on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship, where he graduated first in his class and was elected to The Order of The Barristers. He spent his last semester of law school working full-time as an extern for the Honorable Susan Y. Illston of the Northern District of California. Prior to joining Pillsbury & Coleman, Bill served as a law clerk for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California. Before that, he spent several years at international law firms where he worked on a range of complex civil litigation matters.
Areas of Practice
- Insurance Law Bad Faith
- Disability Insurance
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Property Insurance
- Business Interruption Coverage
Publications
- Disability Claims and The Statute of Limitations, Advocate Magazine, January 2024
- Degrees of Privacy in Federal Court, Advocate Magazine, May 2024
- Win Remand by Challenging The Amount In Controversy, Plaintiff Magazine, December 2024
- Ninth Circuit Confirms Expert Prep Fees Are Recoverable, Daily Journal, December 2024
- Emotional Distress Damages in Insurance Bad Faith Cases, Plaintiff Magazine, April 2025
Professional Affiliations
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- American Association for Justice
Education
- University of California, Davis School of Law
- J.D. – 2017
- Honors: Dean’s Merit Scholarship, First in Class, elected to The Order of The Barristers, National finalist Saul Leftkowitz Moot Court Competition and winner of Lefkowitz National Best Brief Award
- UC Davis Law Review, Editor, 2015-2017; UC Davis School of Law Negotiations Team, 2015-2017
- University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A. – 2014
Admissions
- State Bar of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California