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The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) honored Minami Tamaki with its inaugural APA-Owned Law Firm of the Year Award in Nov. 2012. NAPABA established the APA-Owned Law Firm of the Year Award to recognize NAPABA's law firms—solo, small, and large—that have achieved prominence...

“What You Should Know About The Private Attorney General Act” by Minami Tamaki LLP attorney Kevin R. Allen was originally posted on the Contra Costa Lawyer website. The text of the article is cross-posted here with footnote references, but please visit the original post for the citations. Althoug...

The United States District Court for the Southern District of California has granted final approval to a class action settlement reached by the parties in Ollendorff v. Dalton Trucking, Inc., Case No. 2:11-cv-05189-DMG-SP. The plaintiffs and class members were represented by class counsel Jack W....

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted final approval to a class action settlement reached by the parties in Akaosugi v. Benihana National Corp., Case No. 11-cv-01272 (WHA). The plaintiffs and class members were represented by Kevin R. Allen, Brad Yam...

The Alameda County Superior Court has granted final approval to a $1.25 million dollar wage and hour class action settlement against a California company which owns and operates more than thirty franchise locations of a popular sit-down restaurant chain. [The actual name of the employer and chain...

LINSANITY, the documentary about basketball star Jeremy Lin, last night kicked off CAAMFest 2013, or what was previously known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Attorneys Mark Fong and Olivia Lee were among the attendees in the sold-out crowd at the Castro Theatre f...

More than 230 law students, attorneys, judges, and supporters attended the 6th Annual Dale Minami Public Interest Fellowship gala dinner on January, 25. 2013, at Far East Cafe in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkeley Law 2Ls Joy Wang and Emily Chen served as the dinner co-chairs. Each year, the Fel...

The technology industry has struggled for years to keep foreign national tech innovators in our country with our antiquated immigration laws. To address this as immigration reform discussion is ripe, a group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and even NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg have launched...

UPDATE (01/02/2014) – The California Supreme Court rules Sergio C. Garcia can be admitted to the state bar. Minami Tamaki LLP was one of the firms representing the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California with respect to the Bar's recommendation to the high Court that Garcia be a...

Since the 1950s, San Francisco pedestrians have faced a steady risk of being injured or killed by motorists. Senior citizens, in particular, face the greatest risk for being fatally injured when hit by cars. A S.F. Health Department's study of pedestrian deaths revealed that while adults 65 years...

Please note that every legal matter is different. The outcome of each legal case depends upon many factors, including the facts of the case, and no attorney can guarantee a positive result in any particular case. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. We represented a 51-year old ...

Oct. 18 Update: See today's announcement regarding this settlement. We want to make sure you do not miss the announcement of the historic settlement of one of our cases that could mean $25, $100, $200 or more in your pocket. Since 2007, Minami Tamaki partner Jack Lee has served as the Court-appoi...

Partner Brad Yamauchi (back row, second from left) and his wife, Diane Gunderson ( back row, left ), joined an Aug. 28 celebration of Nancy Pelosi's 25 years of service in Congress. Brad is a board vice president of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC), one o...

On August 20, 2012, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved the class action settlement reached by the parties in Akaosugi v. Benihana National Corp., Case No. 11-cv-01272 (WHA). The Settlement Class, which consists of current and former emp...

Senior Associate La Verne Ramsay in the Minami Tamaki LLP Immigration Practice Group will be a featured speaker at a CLE event on “Advanced Issues in PERM Labor Certifications” presented by the American Immigration Lawyers Association Northern California Chapter. Also featuring Lisa Spiegel, a pa...

Brenda K. (fictitious name), a 76-year-old married artist, fell down a dark staircase at night at a retreat center in rural Marin County where she was attending a weekend conference. There were no witnesses to the fall and she was found by other guests who heard her cries for help after she lande...

Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Minette A. Kwok will join the national Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council, effective June 2012. Based in Washington, D.C., the American Immigration Council has played a leading role in the national debate over immigration reform. With its focus on advo...

By Kevin R. Allen, CERG Practice On April 12, 2011, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Brinker v. Superior Court (S166350). The opinion was highly anticipated because it could have potentially, on one extreme, eliminated wage and hour class actions based on break claims altogethe...

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Partner Dale Minami on March 29 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County at their 7th Annual Membership Dinner in Oakland Chinatown. The Caucus also honored Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter who revealed in mid-2...

Seth I. Rosenberg, a Senior Associate in the firm's Personal Injury practice, was recently selected as a member of National Trial Lawyers Association: Top 40 under 40, an invitation-only honor extended exclusively to those individuals who exemplify superior qualifications, trial results, and lead...

Minami Tamaki LLP Associate Kevin R. Allen was one of three attorney panelists at the March 28 Employment Law Practice panel presented by the Labor and Employment Law Society at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Kevin, an SCU alumni from 2005, was asked to participate in order to provide ...

The Recorder last week reported on a case in which Minami Tamaki partner Jack Lee is the court-appointed liaison. See article below.  Bloomberg also reported on the settlement. The plaintiffs in the case allege that Samsung, Hitachi, Sharp and others “engaged in a worldwide, multiyear conspiracy ...

Minami Tamaki Partner Dale Minami was asked to participate with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Judge Chen (the “Two Eds”) and Attorney General of Hawaii David Louie at two special events The first event, sponsored by the Chinatown Historical Society of America in San Francisco, honored Mayor Lee, Ju...

Edward M. Chen's confirmation to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the U.S. Senate in May 2011 was one of this year's highlights, capping off an almost three-year bruising battle fought by numerous community members and legal advocates, including Minami Tamaki Par...