The Best Lawyers in America recognized seven Minami Tamaki LLP attorneys in its 2022 edition. Partners B. Mark Fong, Olivia Serene Lee, Suhi Koizumi, Senior Counsel Dale Minami, and Senior Associate La Verne A. Ramsay made the Best Lawyers list. Associates Lisa P. Mak and Seema Bhatt were selected for Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch.
Lawyers on the Best Lawyers list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers based on professional expertise and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing. The Ones To Watch awards are recognitions given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers.
Olivia, Suhi, and La Verne were selected for inclusion in the practice area of Immigration Law. It is Olivia’s fifth, Suhi’s third, and La Verne’s first listing on The Best Lawyers in America rankings.
Dale and Mark were selected for the Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs list for the ninth year in a row. Seema made the Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch list for the second straight year. In addition to being recognized again in the Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs category, Seema was also listed for the first time in the Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs category.
Lisa P. Mak made the Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch list for the first time in the Litigation – Labor and Employment category. Lisa’s ranking represents the firm’s first listing in the employment law category.
These individual awards qualify Minami Tamaki LLP for consideration by the U.S. News/Best Lawyers Best Law Firms list, which is announced in November. The firm has been recognized seven times on the Best Law Firms rankings, which are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. Best Lawyers has published its list for more than three decades, striving to earn the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as a reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals. Its first international list was published in 2006 and since then has grown to provide lists in over 75 countries.