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Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale Minami (right) with panelists (from left to right) Lisa Holder, Megan Ming Francis, Shauna Marshall, Eva Paterson, and Nusrat J. Choudhury. Photo by Bob Hsiang. Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale Minami served on a panel at “The Impact of Slavery on Americ...

Dale Minami Transitions to Senior Counsel When the Minami Tamaki law firm started in 1974, Asian American attorneys faced discrimination in employment and the courtroom, just as Asian Americans did in other aspects of society. The firm's founders were determined to fight for social justice on the...

I'm not going to lie to you.  I'm here to implore you—to exhort you—to get active—whether in small or big ways.  Doing nothing is not an option. Here's why. We are witnessing history repeat itself.  The incarceration of Japanese Americans— 77 years ago— has become more relevant than ever.  We ha...

By Dale Minami The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) recently held a celebration of California's 100 Asian Pacific Islander (API) judges, a significant milestone in our history. In 1976, when we began a concerted campaign to appoint API and other minority judges to the...

The 12th Annual Dale Minami Public Interest Fellowship Dinner was held on January 25 at Harborview Restaurant in San Francisco. Bryan Springmeyer and Vina Ha founded the fellowship in 2007 to support outstanding Berkeley Law graduates who commit to serving the public interest. This year's fellows...

Associate Lisa P. Mak (fifth from left in photo) was elected Secretary 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. She also starts her second ...

Minami Tamaki LLP sponsored the San Francisco Japantown Foundation annual New Year's Celebration on Jan. 10, an event that raised $176,000 to support the Foundation's mission to support cultural, community and educational activities in San Francisco Japantown. Firm partner Donald Tamaki has serve...

Donald Tamaki, Minami Tamaki LLP Partner and community leader, discusses in this video the progress made in advancing Asian American representation in the legal community and about the work yet to do. This is the first in series of videos by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay A...

On December 13, 2018, the California First District Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling of the San Mateo Superior Court that our client, plaintiff Marisol Gutierrez, was not required to submit her sexual harassment claims against her former employer to forced arbitration. Marisol Gutierrez began ...

The Minami Tamaki LLP law firm has named Olivia Serene Lee as Partner, effective January 1, 2019. She has been an attorney in the firm's Immigration and Nationality Law practice since January 2009. “We are so thrilled to have Olivia join the partnership,” said Minette Kwok, the firm partner who l...

Julia Macri has joined Minami Tamaki's Immigration and Nationality Law practice group as an Associate. Julia has more than eight years of experience providing immigration solutions to multinational companies and individuals, having worked in Europe, Canada, and the United States. She has performe...

Minami Tamaki LLP is investigating Marriott's recent announcement of a massive data breach involving its Starwood guest reservation database.  Marriott announced on November, 30, 2018, that this breach exposed the personal information of up to 500 million customers. Marriott revealed that hacker...

Minami Tamaki LLP attorneys Dale Minami, Don Tamaki, Sean Tamura-Sato, Lisa Mak, and Seema Bhatt recently attended the annual National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) National Convention in Chicago. The Convention had over 2,000 Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law studen...

Minami Tamaki LLP is investigating claims that pet food companies are manufacturing, advertising, and selling dog food that contains dangerous levels of heavy metals and toxins throughout the United States. Several consumers have recently filed claims against Champion Petfoods, the makers of Aca...

Minami Tamaki LLP has again received a Tier 1 ranking on the U.S. News/Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list under the “Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs” and “Immigration” categories for our metro area. This is the fifth consecutive recognition by U.S. News/Best Lawyers of our Personal Injury...

Olivia Serene Lee will receive a Unity Award from the Minority Bar Coalition in her role in championing diversity and inclusion for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Northern California Chapter and for AILA National.  She is a leader and former chair of AILA NorCal and currently...

Minami Tamaki is investigating “no-poach” and wage-fixing agreements between companies in numerous large industries. A no-poach agreement involves companies agreeing not to compete for each other's employees, such as by not soliciting or hiring them. A wage-fixing agreement involves an agreement ...

Minami Tamaki LLP is investigating reports that Facebook suffered a data breach that compromised user profiles.  Facebook announced on September 28, 2018, that the security issue affected almost 50 million user accounts. According to a Facebook security update, attackers exploited a vulnerability...

Minami Tamaki LLP Partners Dale Minami, Minette Kwok, B. Mark Fong, and Senior Associate Olivia Serene Lee were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 25th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Dale and Mark were selected for the list in the practice area of Personal Injury Litig...

Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Rights Group is investigating claims that e-cigarette manufacturers and retailers are illegally marketing vaping products to minors. On July 24, 2018, the Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office had opened an investigation into e...

Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Rights Group represent clients in trust and estate litigation matters, including cases involving financial elder abuse.  Fueled by the aging baby boomer generation, dramatic growth in the elderly population is expected over the next decade.  The increasing si...

Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Rights Group represents low-wage workers in matters to recover unpaid wages and combat wage theft.  We have represented workers at popular Bay Area restaurants who alleged that they were paid less than $4.00 per hour.  While state and local government have wo...

Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Dale Minami is profiled in a special Super Lawyers article released today along with its new 2018 Northern California lists recognizing the top lawyers in the region. From the article: “While his civil rights work has received most of the attention, Minami has recovered ...

We're proud to announce that all of Minami Tamaki LLP's Partners and three of our Associates were selected as Northern California Super Lawyers for 2018. Three of our Partners have been named Northern California Super Lawyers for the last 15 consecutive years. Super Lawyers published a special pr...

The Minami Tamaki law firm has a long history of fighting for the rights of people of color, women, immigrants, marginalized people, and others. Last year we reconvened the legal team that represented Fred Korematsu in the 1980s to reopen his terrible landmark case legalizing the incarceration of...