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Partner Dale Minami and Senior Counsel B. Mark Fong were recently certified as members of the the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership to the organization is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-m...

Minami Tamaki and Associate Lisa Charbonneau Honored by LGBT Organization for Pro Bono Efforts Minami Tamaki LLP was honored on Oct. 22 along with National Center for Lesbian Rights (“NCLR”) Legal Director Shannon Minter, California State Senator Mark Leno, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, a...

The San Mateo Bar Association Diversity Committee honored Partner Dale Minami and California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar at its annual event on Sept. 20 at the Old Historic Courthouse in Redwood City, Calif. The Bar Association's Diversity Committee works with local public...

Jane D (fictitious name), a 75-year-old mother of five children and grandmother of 10, was returning home from her morning walk when she was struck by a commercial vehicle in 2009 on a busy San Francisco intersection. She suffered serious injuries that crushed her pelvis and eventually required a...

Minami Tamaki Senior Associate Seth I. Rosenberg recently obtained a personal injury judgment for a motorcycle enthusiast involved in a crash in November 2006. Rosenberg obtained a verdict of $189,961.02 and costs of $24,355.74 in Alameda County (Goode v. Crockett). Rosenberg's understanding of t...

More than 30 members of the UC Berkeley Law School's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) and the Asian American Law Journal gathered at Minami Tamaki LLP on October 27 for a fun and inspirational evening. The law students had the opportunity to meet and mingle with Partners D...

In September, Minami Tamaki Partner Jack W. Lee and Senior Associate Bethany Caracuzzo finalized a $3.7 million settlement with the U.S. government in a wage and hour class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 2,000 plaintiffs in 17 states against the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Cen...

Fred Korematsu. Photo by Lia Chang. In October, Partners Dale Minami and Don Tamaki joined the family of Fred T. Korematsu and other supporters at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to celebrate the enactment of Fred Korematsu Day in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in...

Senior Associate Seth Rosenberg obtained a $145,000 settlement from the City of Berkeley and Comcast late last year for client V. Carrillo (not the client's real name), who suffered a severely broken hand (requiring surgery) in 2006 from a bicycle incident in Berkeley, Calif. Carrillo, then a stu...

By Brad Yamauchi, Partner You probably have read about “golden parachute” severance packages that pay millions of dollars to corporate executives, even when they are fired for poor performance or a scandal. Why is that? Can you get a severance package if you voluntarily or involuntarily leave you...

Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Associate Seth Rosenberg wrote this piece for The Recorder, which published it in mid-July as part of their “Mentors 2010” series. Mix in Jerry Spence, Yogi Berra, a Zen Master of your choosing, and a healthy dose of '60s-style rebellion and you have my mentor and friend,...

Olivia Serene Lee, an associate in Minami Tamaki's Immigration Practice Group, recently became the Co-Chair of the Employment Committee of the Asian American Bar Association (AABA). The committee organized the 23rd annual AABA Summer Law Clerk Reception at Yank Sing Restaurant on June 23, 2010. O...

Partner Dale Minami recently settled a case for client M. Jay (not the person's real name), a 60-year-old, self-employed dentist who suffered injuries when his car was hit by an oncoming car in Sept. 2008 in Oakland. Dr. Jay's injuries were so severe that he was forced to take months off from his...

From left: Jack W. Lee; Minette Kwok, Dale Minami, Donald K. Tamaki, Lynda Won-Chung and Brad Yamauchi. Not pictured: Mark Fong and Derek G. Howard. Each of the five partners at Minami Tamaki LLP has been named by Northern California Super Lawyers magazine as among the top attorneys for 2010 for ...

On May 22, the University of San Francisco School of of Law bestowed an honorary degree upon Dale Minami, a partner at Minami Tamaki LLP. Minami has tried numerous civil rights cases involving Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities on a pro bono basis, including Korematsu v. United States. ...

CNN aired a report May 26 on Vince Cefalu, a special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who says he experienced retaliation by the agency after he filed several grievances and an age-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Minami T...

On May 7, 2010, I attended the ceremony to dedicate the James P. McEntee, Sr. Plaza and its Legacy Art Project in the Santa Clara County Building at Hedding and First Street in San Jose.  Many speakers reflecting the ethnic, religious, political and community diversity of California honored the m...

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) yesterday praised President Obama's nomination of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Edward Davila for a federal judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Senator Boxer recommended Davila's nomination to the White House af...

Minami Tamaki partner Minette Kwok and senior counsel Lynda Won-Chung, both with the firm's immigration practice group, have been selected by Who's Who Legal, a site featuring more than 10,000 of the world's leading private practice lawyers from over 100 national jurisdictions. Nominees are selec...

Partner Donald Tamaki recently signed on as a client Ryan Higa, the YouTube celebrity whose channel made YouTube history as the first to reach two million subscribers. Ryan and Sean Fujiyoshi started posting YouTube videos of themselves lip synching to songs in mid-2006 while attending Waiakea Hi...

The San Francisco Japantown Foundation selected ten nonprofit projects and activities to participate in its 2010 matching grants program. These projects will be awarded up to $4,000 through a matching grants program instituted by the Foundation. The Foundation was formed in December 2006 through ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on April 8 announced that it was continuing to accept H-1B nonimmigrant petitions subject to the cap for this Federal fiscal year (2011). USCIS received approximately 13,500 H-1B petitions counting towards the 65,000 cap. The agency has receiv...

Associate Seth Rosenberg obtained a $400,000 settlement for client Kenneth T. for hip injuries suffered after he tripped and fell over elevated sidewalk panels on a street in San Francisco. Kenneth, then 81, and a small business owner, suffered his injuries in January 2008 from tripping over pane...

A man who leaned on a defective railing that crumbled and fell two stories in his apartment building recovered $1,066,690 through the efforts of Partner Dale Minami. The fall caused Roger D. permanent knee injuries, including a fracture in the leg, torn ligaments and chronic post-traumatic arthri...

Senior counsel Mark Fong (left photo) and associate Seth Rosenberg (left bottom photo) obtained a $490,000 settlement on behalf of Frank S., a former law enforcement and security officer who suffered a stroke due to medical malpractice at the Colton, Calif., Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, whi...