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Minami Tamaki LLP co-founder and Senior Counsel Donald K. Tamaki serves on the task force. As part of California's historic Assembly Bill 3121 (AB 3121), the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans (Reparations Task Force) today released an interim re...

Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale Minami appeared on a recent episode of Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast, a program hosted by retired pastor Dr. Ken Fong. Dale recounted the background and details of some key moments in his life and his efforts as part of the legal team representing Fred ...

On May 23, 2022, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc., No. S258966 (Cal. May. 23, 2022) holding that meal and rest period premium payments constitute wages under California law. The Court found that employers may be held liable for the fa...

Rouble Claire, a Sikh American in Sutter, California, was victimized by threats and racial slurs in May 2021 and called 911 for help. Representatives of the local sheriff's office took no action immediately following the incident, except for a deputy that tried to wash away the evidence. The sher...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has selected Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Olivia Serene Lee with its 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. AILA's Annual Awards are the highest recognition of achievement and contributions in the national immigration law community. AILA is a...

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA), one of the largest Asian American bar associations in the nation, held its 46th Annual Gala on March 30, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero. Minami Tamaki LLP was proud to be a Title Sponsor for the gala this year. Minami Tama...

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area hosted a special fireside chat with former women presidents of the organization on March 23 at Morgan Lewis's San Francisco office. The program featured Judge Margaret Fujioka, Judge Joni Hiramoto, Joan Haratani, Edith Ho, Emi Gusukuma, a...

Minami Tamaki LLP Associate Lisa P. Mak will keynote the annual banquet of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) at UC Davis School of Law on April 14, 2022. Lisa is President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. UC Davis APALSA is an organization ...

USCIS has completed the H-1B lottery selection process and has completed notifying those selected in the first round of selection.  If any registration(s) for your company have been selected, you will have received an email from myUSCIS stating that USCIS has taken action on your case.  To r...

Over the weekend, USCIS began the process of notifying employers of registrations that were selected in this year's H-1B lottery. To date, USCIS has not yet confirmed that it is done notifying all selected registrants. There may be additional notifications until March 31, unless USCIS makes an an...

UPDATE: The H-1B lottery registration window will be opening next Tuesday, March 1, 2022 and will close on March 18, 2022.  Today, we provided a complimentary webinar with a comprehensive overview of the H-1B registration system and guidance on what employers are expected to do as well as th...

On February 9, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 114 that provides additional COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (SPSL 2022) under new California Labor Code Section 248.6. This new law will look familiar to employers that were required to comply with California's 2021 C...

It is time to start getting ready for the annual H-1B lottery registration period, which is expected to open sometime in March 2022.  (USCIS has not yet announced exact dates.)  As a reminder, individuals who have never previously been in H-1B status will need to go through the lottery regis...

Justice Harry Low honored with the alumni award at the 2018 Dale Minami Berkeley Law Alumni Fellowship Event. Justice Harry Low passed away last week. He was a great friend to our firm, but even more importantly, he was an outstanding jurist, supporter of the Asian American and Pacific Islander c...

The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” – Chief Justice John Roberts on Korematsu v. United States, 2018. Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale Minami hea...

A new law making the intentional theft of wages punishable as grand theft, and thus a felony, will go into effect on January 1, 2022. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill No. 1003 (“AB 1003”) into law on September 27, 2021. AB 1003 creates California Penal Code Section 487(m), wh...

Partner Olivia Serene Lee authored the article “Gathering Evidence for Researchers in Private Industry” in the new book Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers, 3rd Ed released in October 2021 by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Olivia is an elected Director on AILA's natio...

On November 26, 2021, President Biden announced a new COVID-19 public health travel ban from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in response to the Omicron Variant. Effective November 29, 2021, at 12:01 am EST, foreign nationals who have been ...

Minami Tamaki Senior Associate Seema Bhatt obtained $2,675,000 in settlements for two of our clients who were injured while walking by a truck that failed to yield. “May,” a 36-year-old woman was walking across a street when she was struck by a truck that failed to yield to her, injuring her and ...

Minami Tamaki LLP Associate Lisa P. Mak begins her term in January 2022 as President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (“AABA”), one of the largest Asian American bar associations in the nation and one of the largest minority bar associations in California.   Lisa will...

On November 19, 2021, USCIS announced that they have selected an additional 16,753 registrations for this year's H-1B lottery. If your company filed any H-1B registrations this year that have not yet been selected, you will be able to check for updates on each case in the myUSCIS portal. Cases...

Minami Tamaki LLP's Immigration and Nationality Law and Personal Injury practices are again ranked on the new 2022 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list released today. The firm's immigration practice received a National Tier 2 ranking, the third year of being nationally ranked. The prac...

The annual ‘green card' lottery is here again. Please share this information with your foreign national employees!   The annual Diversity Visa Lottery registration is currently open and concludes on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 (EST Noon). Applicants may apply online at https://www.dvlottery.sta...

Vaccination Requirement Replaces Regional COVID Travel Bans for Air Travelers On October 25, 2021, President Biden that the U.S. will move away from country-by-country travel restrictions and adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination, with limited exceptions. Effective, Nove...

Minami Tamaki LLP is investigating Houston-based Amplify Energy Corporation (“Amplify Energy”), its subsidiaries, and other corporations for their role in the massive October 2, 2021, oil spill in Huntington Beach.  A pipeline failure from an offshore facility operated by Beta Offshore, a subsidi...