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Almost 2,000 nonprofits in San Francisco had to move out of San Francisco or fold between 2011 and 2013 because of the rapidly escalating real estate costs. Two years later, the exodus continues in 2015 with more nonprofits seeking less costly office space as their S.F. leases expire. Minami Tama...

Dale Minami Fellowship team: (from left to right) Bryan Springmeyer (Program Director), Cindy Dinh, Vina Ha (President), Francis Choi (2014 dinner co-chair), Hong Le (2014 dinner co-chair), Dale Minami, AnVy Nguyen, Fuyuo Nagayama, and Stephen Chang The Eighth Annual Dale Minami Public Interest F...

Minami Tamaki Senior Associate Aron K. Liang was a featured presenter at an April 21 panel on trial skills hosted by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. This panel provided information on the rules governing discovery in complex litigation, both in state and federal court, as well as pro...

Photo: President Suhi Koizumi (third from right on far side of the table) and her fellow Korean American Bar Association board members at their first meeting of 2015. Photo via KABANC on Facebook. In April 2015, Senior Associate Suhi Koizumi took office as President of the Korean American Bar Ass...

On April 17, 2015, Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Minette Kwok attended a national meeting of the board of trustees of the American Immigration Council, an organization that champions the contributions of immigrants to the American public and works to counteract the misleading and negative stereotypes...

Firm partner Jack W. Lee was part of an expert panel discussion featured in this month's issue of California Lawyer magazine. Jack and four other attorneys shared their thoughts on recent developments and cases in employment law. Read the issue online at http://bit.ly/1CXIIIf.

Our client, Yoav T., a 40-year-old line cook at Alta Bates Hospital, was driving his motorcycle on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland when he struck a car which pulled out in front of him from a side street. The driver, Natalie V., stated she looked both ways before entering the intersection but did not...

A waiter at a Chinese restaurant placed a teapot filled with hot water on a table in front of two-year-old Brian L. who, seconds later, sucked scalding water from the spout of the teapot which was left facing him, causing him to suffer burns to his esophagus. Brian was taken to the hospital where...

Minami Tamaki LLP has received a Tier 1 ranking in the 2015 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” under the “Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs” category for our metro area. The U.S.News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that i...

A monumental battle over patient safety in California will be decided on Election Day in the form of Proposition 46 – the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act. The namesakes of this initiative are two young children who died at the hands of an intoxicated motorist high on prescription medicatio...

PHOTO: From left to right, Associate Olivia S. Lee, firm client Aerin Lim (Director of Investor Relations at 500 Startups), Senior Associate Suhi Koizumi (KABANC President-Elect), Senior Associate La Verne Ramsay, and Parner Minette Kwok at the KABANC 2014 annual dinner. On September 26, Senior A...

In mid-September of this year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $2.1 million for legal services for unaccompanied minors and families living in San Francisco without representation who face deportation to Central America. The funding was approved due to legislation intr...

On April 29, 2011, Jane Doe was in Sacramento for work. She had just left a restaurant with colleagues and climbed into a taxi. The cab driver told her she was not the fare he was supposed to get and asked her to leave the cab. Inexplicably, before she could fully step out of the cab, he started ...

On January 24, 2012, a law school student,  A. Doe (fictional name), was walking to the bus stop, on her way to class, when she was struck by a car going approximately 35 miles per hour. Not only was Ms. Doe walking in the crosswalk, but she had stopped and looked both ways before entering the cr...

Attorney Steve W. Berman, managing partner and co-founder of Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, along with Derek Howard and Jack Lee of San Francisco-based Minami Tamaki LLP, have filed a class-action lawsuit (download PDF) on behalf of several current and former soccer players agains...

Minami Tamaki LLP Partners Dale Minami, B. Mark Fong, and Seth I. Rosenberg have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 21st Edition of The Best Lawyers in America (bestlawyers.com) in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. It is the second year in a row that Dal...

Minami Tamaki has been a longtime supporter of the work of a San Francisco-based nonprofit, The Forgotten International (“TFI”). We are proud to partner with TFI and support their mission to alleviate poverty in the U.S. and worldwide, especially poverty experienced by children and women. Minami ...

We're proud to announce that all of Minami Tamaki LLP's Partners, our Senior Counsel, and 70% of our Associates were selected as Northern California Super Lawyers for 2014. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professiona...

One our mentors, an Of Counsel to our firm, and just a good friend, passed away in May. Bill Hirose was one of the first Asian American attorneys to graduate from Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law) in the 1950s. With his law degree, Bill pursued a career as a tax accountant, but because big accounting fir...

Twenty-five years ago yesterday (May 25, 1989), a widely watched three-year multi-racial struggle involving thousands of supporters came to a successful end with the granting of tenure to Don Nakanishi at UCLA. Our firm partner Dale Minami led the legal fight, Dale Shimasaki coordinated the legis...

You have worked for decades, relying on contributions to a 401(k) plan for retirement.  But like most of us, you are not aware that you may be losing money through illegal activities of your employer and/or plan administrator such as overcharging fees and inappropriate investment choices.  As the...

Partner Don Tamaki delivered the following remarks for his introduction of State Bar of California CEO Joe Dunn, President of the State Bar Luis Rodriguez, on March 14, 2014, at the annual dinner of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. AABA presented the State Bar with an a...

This was a complex catastrophic injury case, where we represented two young girls, ages 8 and 10 (Minor 1 and 2).  Minor 1 and 2 were severely injured when their grandmother lost control of her car and inexplicably drove into the opposite side of the lane on Interstate-88 near San Joaquin, and in...

Partner Minette Kwok of our Immigration Practice Group was recently recognized in a special magazine, San Francisco's Women Leaders in the Law, published by ALM, Martindale-Hubbell and The San Francisco Chronicle. The magazine featured profiles of the area's top female attorneys in recognition of...

The Immigration Practice Group is recovering from a crushing push made on behalf of its corporate clients for the April 1, 2014, opening by USCIS of H-1B visa petitions for professionals seeking to work in the U.S. in FY 2015, including software engineers, marketing specialists, and burgeoning en...