Diane Honda, general counsel of Barracuda Networks Inc., earned her law degree at night. She’d finished up at Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computer science, and after some years in-house at Hewlett Packard Co., she left to focus on working with smaller, innovative tech companies.

“I took a lot of high-tech courses at Santa Clara Law because I knew that, with my engineering background, I would go back into a company focused on that.”