Minami Tamaki LLP Partners Olivia Serene Lee and Suhi Koizumi have been named to the 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers list. “These lawyers bring a vast span of skills and expertise – representing multinational corporations in their global mobility needs, advocating for family-based...
Partner Seema Bhatt and our personal injury practice successfully secured a $1.37 million settlement for a retired military veteran who suffered serious injuries in a head-on collision with a commercial armored vehicle in Sonoma County. The defense initially argued the accident was caused by dan...
Minami Tamaki LLP is ranked on the "Best Law Firms" 2026 list by Best Lawyers, marking the 12th consecutive year the firm has received this recognition. The firm achieved a National Tier 1 ranking for its Immigration and Nationality Law practice. Minami Tamaki's Personal Injury and Consumer and ...
Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Olivia S. Lee co-authored an article on noncitizen voting in non-federal elections in the latest issue of the AILA Law Journal, a publication of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The journal is committed to helping develop and publish accurate, concise, and i...
Managing Partner Sean Tamura-Sato and Senior Counsel Dale Minami were named to The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers. Lawdragon is a legal media company that publishes guides to the nation's leading lawyers, and provides a platform for lawyers and firms to pr...
Minami Tamaki LLP congratulates Ai Mori on her appointment to the San Francisco County Superior Court by Governor Gavin Newsom. Judge Mori served as an Associate at Minami Tamaki from 2002 to 2006. Since 2020, she has served as a Chambers Attorney to Associate Justice Martin Jenkins at the California Supreme Court.
The Best Lawyers in America recognized six Minami Tamaki LLP attorneys in its 2026 edition. Partners Sean Tamura-Sato, Olivia Serene Lee, Suhi Koizumi, Senior Counsel Dale Minami, and Senior Associates La Verne A. Ramsay and Angela Mapa made the Best Lawyers list. Suhi, Olivia, La Verne, and An...
Minami Tamaki LLP Partner Suhi Koizumi will be a featured speaker at an immigration panel event hosted by the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (KABANC) on August 7, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Fragomen's San Jose office, located at 2755 Orchard Parkway. Suhi; Aileen Kim,...
Seven Minami Tamaki LLP attorneys were selected as Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2025: Dale Minami, Donald K. Tamaki, Sean Tamura-Sato, Olivia Serene Lee, Suhi Koizumi, Seema Bhatt, and Dian Sohn.
When the Minami Tamaki law firm started in 1975, 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 their own terms and created a firm that would...
Minami Tamaki LLP is pleased to announce a significant victory on behalf of client Rouble Claire in his civil rights case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Mr. Claire initially brought this matter after experiencing racial harassment and intimidation in ...
Minami Tamaki is investigating reports that Blue Shield of California (“Blue Shield”) allowed unauthorized access to the healthcare information of millions of California residents. In April 2025, Blue Shield disclosed that it had used Google Analytics in a manner that allowed member data to be s...
The Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemy Act (AEA) and the reconsideration of birthright citizenship have ignited deep concerns within our firm. These are not abstract legal theories for us; they are issues woven into the very fabric of our history and the personal experiences of ...
Minami Tamaki LLP is investigating reports of a data breach tied to PowerSchool Group LLC ("PowerSchool"), a Folsom, California-based provider of software used by many school districts around the country. Earlier this month, PowerSchool revealed that hackers had compromised the personal data of ...
The Minami Tamaki LLP law firm has named Seema Bhatt as Partner, effective January 1, 2025. Seema joined the firm in January 2016 and leads the firm's personal injury practice, succeeding B. Mark Fong, who retired on December 31, 2024. “We are thrilled to have Seema join the partnership,” said Ma...
Minami Tamaki LLP announced Senior Counsel B. Mark Fong's retirement effective December 31, 2024. Mark joined the firm as Senior Counsel in 2006, was a Partner from 2014 through 2023, and transitioned to Senior Counsel in 2024. He has led the firm's Personal Injury Practice Group since 2017, taki...
Americans have decided who will govern us for the next four years and Minami Tamaki LLP will be prepared for the new leadership of our country. Many of our attorneys are veterans of advocating against policies of the first Trump administration, but we understand that the next four years will not ...
Best Lawyers announced that Minami Tamaki LLP is again ranked on its “Best Law Firms” list. This is the 11th year the firm has been recognized with this distinction. Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Right Practice was ranked Metro Tier 1 for the first time. The firm's Immigration and Nationa...
Our client, a 50-year-old Stockton man, was riding his motorcycle when a truck driven by the employee of an orchard company made a left turn in front of him, causing them to collide. Perplexingly, the responding police officer cited our client for the crash, stating he violated the truck driver's...
In the News: This case was covered by The Stockton Record. In a recent settlement, Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel B. Mark Fong and Associate Ember Oparowski secured a $650,000 settlement for the wrongful death of a 78-year-old disabled man in San Joaquin County. The man suffered a head injury i...
The San Jose Mercury News, KRON4, and India-West recently covered the lawsuit we filed on behalf of the family of 11-year-old Mahi Kothari of Cupertino against the suspected intoxicated driver who struck Mahi and three other children. Minami Tamaki LLP attorney Seema Bhatt is leading the lawsuit....
Minami Tamaki LLP attorney Seema Bhatt today announced that two families have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Superior Court against the suspected DUI driver who killed 11-year-old Mahi Kothari in Cupertino, along with other parties responsible for enabling the incident. Lawyers for the familie...
Who's Who Legal (WWL) Thought Leaders USA has selected Minami Tamaki Partner Olivia Serene Lee for inclusion in its 2025 report recognizing Olivia as one of the foremost legal practitioners in immigration law based upon WWL's comprehensive, independent research. For more than 20 years. WWL has se...
Minami Tamaki LLP personal injury attorneys Ember Oparowski and Seema Bhatt obtained a $395,000 settlement on behalf of our client who suffered injuries at an indoor climbing gym. Our client fell from a newly installed climbing wall route onto the unprotected floor at the gym and suffered a fract...
Minami Tamaki LLP attorney Ember Oparowski is a new member of the Sacramento chapter of American Inns of Court, a national organization of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals with a mission to inspire the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of prof...
Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm serving clients in the areas of Personal Injury, Consumer and Employment Rights, Corporate and Nonprofit Counseling, and Immigration and Nationality Law.