Partner Don Tamaki, head of Minami Tamaki LLP's Corporate and Nonprofit Counseling practice, was featured in a recent video produced by Nihonmachi Little Friends, a private, nonprofit childcare center in San Francisco Japantown. In the video, Don recounts the fight over the historic building, hom...
On August 3, 2012, Brad and Karen Y., a married couple and both 38, went to lunch at the Wayfare Tavern Restaurant in San Francisco, California. While seated and enjoying their food, a waiter, carrying a large urn, containing approximately 64 ounces of boiling hot coffee, spilled its contents dow...
Legal protections for undocumented workers are currently in a state of flux in California and across the United States. Because California is home to many of the nation's undocumented workers, developments in California's employment laws impact millions of lives and influence the developing lands...
On February 7, 2009 Ray T., a stevedore at the Port of Stockton, was getting off work where he had been supervising the offloading of a cargo ship. As Ray drove along the dock in his Honda Civic, a Port of Stockton police car exited a warehouse and struck Ray's car at low speed. A few seconds l...
We were recently asked to represent a man with serious injuries he suffered in a car accident. He suffered a broken arm, two broken legs, a skull fracture and multiple broken ribs. Our client was hit while driving through an intersection with the green light by another car which ran the red light...
The California State Legislature enacted numerous employment laws in 2013 that affect California employees and employers. Below is a brief summary of some of the most important changes to California employment law. Unless otherwise specified, these laws became effective on January 1, 2014. Expa...
On January 7, 2014, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu honored Isabel Huie, the 84-year-old activist who was fatally struck by a car late last year in Chinatown. Partner Mark Fong is the Huie family's attorney. Huie, who last worked with Friends of Educational Opportunities t...
New State and Federal laws and regulations will change the landscape for domestic service workers and their employers as early as 2014. California will implement the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights (see A.B. 241) in the new year. Effective January 1, 2014, private households that employ childcare ...
The Partners of Minami Tamaki LLP are proud to welcome B. Mark Fong and Seth I. Rosenberg into the firm partnership, effective January 1, 2014. Both Mark and Seth are seasoned trial lawyers and will be working with both the Personal Injury Group and the Consumer and Employment Rights Group. Mark ...
On December 13, 2009, then 57-year-old Jane Doe was visiting a large retail store in San Bruno with her granddaughter. Though an outside area of the store was covered overhead, the floor was still flooded due to recent rain, improper sloping of the floor, and poor drainage. Ms. Doe slipped and ...
If you purchased a car, truck, or agricultural/construction equipment shipped from overseas between 2008 and 2013, you may have paid inflated charges for shipment to the United States. Government agencies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan are investigating a potential price-fixing cartel in ...
Associate Eunice W. Yang represented a 7-month pregnant pedestrian who was hit by a bicyclist at the intersection of 4th and Folsom Streets in San Francisco. Our client, Jane Doe*, was walking southwest on Folsom and stopped at the curb of the intersection for the light to change. At the same tim...
Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Dale Minami, Senior Counsel B. Mark Fong, and Senior Associate Seth I. Rosenberg have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America (bestlawyers.com) in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. Since it...
Minette Kwok, our Immigration Practice Group partner, was recently quoted in a post on ImmigrationImpact.com, a blog of the American Immigration Council. Despite the fact that immigrant-founded venture-backed companies create enormous value in the U.S., no immigrant entrepreneur visa exists. The...
CERG Associate Sean Tamura-Sato spoke on a June 28 panel at this year's National Employment Lawyers Association annual convention in Denver, Colorado. Sean, along with Adria S. Zeldin and moderator Gary M. Gilbert, focused on how practitioners can maximize compensatory damages awards in federal s...
Attorneys in Minami Tamaki's Personal Injury Group obtained a $4,325,000 award in Alameda Superior Court for a client who was run over by a semi-truck, crushing her pelvis and causing several other major injuries. Senior Associate Seth I. Rosenberg led the case with help from Partner Dale Minami,...
Partner Jack W. Lee will join two federal judges and other experts on a panel providing insight into the process of becoming a federal judge. “The Experts Speak: Navigating the Path to the Federal Bench,” a panel presented by the ABA Judicial Division Standing Committee on Diversity in the Judici...
In February 2013, Associate Eunice Yang spoke on a panel at the Legally Asian 2013 Conference hosted by the Asian American Bar Association, Korean American Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association of Northern California, and the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California at Golden Gate U...
Immigration Practice Group Associate Olivia Lee was recently elected to the Executive Board of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Northern California Chapter. AILA is the national bar for immigration attorneys, and AILA NorCal is one of its leading chapters, with over 700 members...
Minami Tamaki LLP is proud to announce that all of our Partners, both of our Senior Counsel, and six Associates have been selected as Northern California Super Lawyers for 2013. This is the 10th straight year that our Partners received this distinction and a record 13 attorneys from our firm to r...
Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Minette A. Kwok recently joined the American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) Business Immigration Committee. AILA is the national association of over 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. AILA Member attorneys represent U.S....
Partner Don Tamaki and Associate Phil Zackler of Minami Tamaki LLP's Corporate & Nonprofit Counseling Group recently assisted AnonyMouse with its web privacy and user policies. AnonyMouse is a new website that seeks to revolutionize the way people seek anonymous help with an initial focus on the ...
In the April 2013 issue of Plaintiff Magazine, Seth I. Rosenberg of our Personal Injury Group shares how his love of quotes can be an advantage in practicing law. Plaintiff, an independently-owned magazine, bridges the gap between small association magazines and newsletters that reach only a limi...
Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Minette A. Kwok recently engaged in national immigration policy in Washington, D.C., in her roles as a member of the national Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council, and as a member and former national board member of the American Immigration Lawyers Assoc...
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell has selected Minami Tamaki LLP as one of California's Top Ranked Law Firms. Only 222 law firms in California – out of nearly 43,000 considered – received this recognition. Only 32 firms in San Francisco made the list. Our firm achieved this recognition by having at l...
Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm serving clients in the areas of Personal Injury, Consumer and Employment Rights, Corporate and Nonprofit Counseling, and Immigration and Nationality Law.