Minami Tamaki, LLP

Specialties

Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-​based law firm serving clients in the areas of Consumer and Employment Rights, Corporate and Nonprofit Counseling, Immigration, Personal Injury, and Entertainment.

Our attorneys serve clients by applying award-​winning legal expertise, competitive rates, and personalized service.

Minami Tamaki LLP was named as one of California’s Top Ranked Law Firms by LexisNexis Martindale-​Hubbell. Our firm is one of only 222 law firms in California — out of nearly 43,000 considered — to receive this recognition. Only 32 firms in San Francisco made the list.

Our attorneys have been recognized as «Super Lawyers» by Law & Politics magazine, named to the Top 500 lawyers in the country list by LawDragon magazine, as some of the best attorneys in the Bay Area by Bay Area Lawyer Magazine, and as the inaugural Asian Pacific American Law Firm of the Year by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Our firm’s work has been spotlighted in national, local, and legal media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, 60 Minutes, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, Court TV, Daily Journal, and The Recorder.

Minami Tamaki LLP combines small firm service with large firm legal expertise. Our attorneys have won historic and precedent-​setting legal cases, and have served as leaders in their respective areas of the law.

History

Established in 1974.

We have been involved in major and historic legal cases, including the successful reopening of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. the United States (overturning Fred Korematsu’s criminal conviction for refusing government exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII based on the prosecution’s misrepresentations and falsified evidence presented to the United States Supreme Court in 1944) that led to reparations for interned Japanese Americans; Popov vs. Hayashi (dispute over Barry Bonds’ record– breaking 73^rd home run ball); and Donnelly vs. U.S. Department of Agriculture (class action sexual harassment/​retaliation case). Through these and other newsworthy cases, the firm’s work has been spotlighted in national media coverage, including 60 Minutes, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, Court TV, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The firm has gained significant experience in navigating high profile cases before local and national news media. Despite our status

Meet the Business Owner

Minette K.

Business Owner

Minette A. Kwok, a Partner with Minami Tamaki LLP, is a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, as designated by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Donald Tamaki (Corporate/​Nonprofit), Jack W. Lee (Employment), B. Mark Fong (Personal Injury), and Seth I. Rosenberg (Personal Injury) are the other firm partners.

Her practice focuses primarily on business immigration, where she represents start– ups and emerging high tech companies, as well as global Fortune 500 companies in the IT, engineering, clean energy, and manufacturing industries, working closely with corporate executives and human resources personnel to meet their strategic immigration needs, and advising companies in times of both growth and contraction.

Ms. Kwok is a leader in the immigration bar. She currently serves on the national Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council and on the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA) Business Immigration Committee.