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Partner Dale Minami with Apolo Ohno taken a few years ago. Dale is fond of Olympic champions on ice.

Cameron House provides food baskets to needy families in Chinatown. This year, youth created spice blends to raise money for food to put in the baskets. Among the thousands of service agencies and community nonprofits struggling to make it through these tough economic times, Donaldina Cameron Hou...

UPDATED: Coverage of the event in the Rafu Shimpo. Firm partner Dale Minami will keynote the 2010 Day of Remembrance in Little Tokyo on Saturday, February 20, at the Japanese American National Museum, 100 E. Central Ave., Los Angeles. The annual community program commemorates the signing of Execu...

This article by Ai Mori was originally published in the October/November newsletter of the Asian American Bar Assocition of the Greater Bay Area. On September 10, AABA members gathered at the Mercury Lounge in San Francisco to celebrate Hiroshima's 30th anniversary at a Happy Hour/Salon Discussio...

We just sent out our latest newsletter from Minami Tamaki LLP. And you may notice how short it is. The printed newsletter we just mailed out contains only abbreviated versions of articles. The full versions are available here on mtdocket.com. We're trying to move most of our communication with yo...

TechAffair.com mentions MT managing partner Don Tamaki in a Nov. 16 blog post on the Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center: [Shaun] Tai's vision and enthusiasm soon caught the attention of prominent San Francisco attorney Donald K. Tamaki, a partner at Minami Tamaki LLP, who specializes in ...

Olivia Serene Lee, an associate in our San Francisco office with the Immigration practice group, joined the firm in January 2009. Olivia was admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court, Northern District of California, in 2008. She is a member of the American Immigration L...

Minami Tamaki LLP partner Jack Lee and associate Sean Tamura-Sato negotiated a $160,000 settlement at mediation for a Fremont, Calif., woman laid off in a reduction in force, but who suspected discrimination on the basis of her national origin and age. The client (name withheld), a 51-year-old Ch...

The City of Arcata in February filed a federal lawsuit against the United States government and the U.S. Department of Defense to defend a voter-approved referendum protecting minors against abusive military recruiting. Minami Tamaki LLP partner Brad Yamauchi and the Law Offices of Michael S. Sor...

In his capacity as chair of Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Selection Commission, partner Jack Lee participated in a panel on “How Do You Become A Federal Judge? Demystifying the Nominating Process for Federal Judicial Appointments” on May 26 at the Santa Clara County Bar Association. The panel ...

A 68-year-old retired cook (client's name withheld) was walking across Ellis Street in San Francisco in the crosswalk on a green light when a Luxor cab struck her as it turned into the intersection. The impact slammed her to the pavement, causing her head to strike the ground with great force. Sh...

Minami Tamaki LLP recently settled a wrongful death claim for the family of Kenji Suzuki, a former Marine who died from injuries after being run over by a MUNI bus near Japantown. On January 11, 2007, Suzuki was walking in a crosswalk while the light was green at the intersection of Geary Bouleva...

Minami Tamaki LLP associate Seth Rosenberg and partner Dale Minami were able to help the victim of a drunk driver and also expose systematic malfeasance and negligence by one of the largest liquor distributors in the country. On the evening of August 30, 2006, Mr. Smith (not his real name, which ...

Federal Transit Administration data reveal that mile for mile, cable cars get in the most accidents and cause the most injuries of any form of public transportation in the country. In April 2009, Minami Tamaki LLP senior counsel B. Mark Fong settled a wrongful death case for $500,000 brought by t...

The Asian Law Caucus officially launched the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education at the organization's annual event on April 30 in San Francisco. Minami Tamaki LLP was a sponsor of the event. “The Institute will play a role in a new era of collaborative efforts to further s...

Each of the five partners and a senior counsel at Minami Tamaki LLP have been named by Northern California Super Lawyers magazine as among the top attorneys for 2009 for the sixth straight year. Only five percent of the lawyers in the California are named by Super Lawyers. Dale Minami (Personal I...

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) applauds President Barack Obama's historic nomination today of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen to serve as a federal district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. AABA expresses its appreci...

Prof. Ron Takaki passed away this week at the ago of 70.  Dale Minami shares his thoughts on Prof. Takaki's legacy and their friendship. When I met Ron Takaki in the UC Berkeley Asian American Studies conference room in the early '70s, he seemed like a harmless, cordial and restrained scholar typ...

I am on the Board of Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation and we're having an annual fundraiser on May 30 in San Francisco. Her fundraisers are always fun and for good causes she supports so please consider joining us. A one-night-only dinner/ballroom dancing extravaganza titled Kristi Yama...

When our legal team stood in the courtroom of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on a rainy Nov. 10, 1983, to argue for the overturning of Fred Korematsu's 40-year-old conviction for failure to obey the military orders directed at Japanese Americans in 1942, we knew t...

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...