First
Annual Dale Minami Boalt Alumni Fellowship Dinner
Friday, January 25, 2008
6:00 pm Cocktails / 7:00 pm Dinner
Empress of China, 838 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA
94108
About
Dale Minami
Dale
Minami, a partner with Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco,
specializes in personal injury and entertainment law. He
was admitted to the California State Bar in 1972 and is
also admitted to practice in U.S. District Court, Northern
District of California , the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth
Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Minami
received a B.A. in Political Science from the University
of Southern California and graduated magna cum laude and
Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. He received his J.D. in 1971 from
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California.
His
practice focuses on the area of Personal Injury and Wrongful
Death, involving claims by persons who have suffered injury
or the death of a close relative through the negligence
of another party. Mr. Minami has handled personal injury
and wrongful death cases for over 35 years, including claims
resulting from auto accidents, pedestrians, defective products,
slips and falls and other situations where persons were
injured through the negligence of others. A number of these
cases have resulted in verdict and settlement results of
over $1 million. Mr. Minami has been recognized as one of
the top personal injury lawyers in the Bay Area. He was
selected by Law & Politics Magazine as one of the Top
100 Super Lawyers, in 2005, one of the Super Lawyers for
2004, 2005 and 2006 in Northern California in the Personal
Injury category, one of the Top Lawyers in the Bay Area
in the Personal Injury category by Bay Area Lawyer Magazine
in 2006 and one of the 500 hundred Best Lawyers in America
by Lawdragon Magazine in 2005.
Mr.
Minami also represents clients in the entertainment industry,
including Kristi Yamaguchi, the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal
skater, CNN's Erica Hill, KPIX's morning anchor, Sydnie
Kohara, reporters Anna Duckworth and Simon Perez, and weekend
weatherman Lawrence Karnow, KGO's Carolyn Tyler, Heather
Ishimaru, David Louie, and Vic Lee, KRON's Wendy Tokuda,
playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and Oscar-awarded film maker
Steven Okazaki. He is counsel to several community organizations,
including the National Asian American Telecommunications
Association and the Asian American Journalists' Association.
He
has been involved in significant litigation involving the
civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities,
including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn
a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders
aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld
by US Supreme Court in landmark decisions, United Pilipinos
for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first
class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific
Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans, Spokane
JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf
of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American
Studies program at Washington State University and Nakanishi
v. UCLA a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted
in the granting of tenure after several hearings and widespread
publicity over discrimination in academia.
Mr.
Minami has served as a member of the California Fair Employment
and Housing Commission and has chaired the California Attorney
General's Asian Pacific Advisory Committee, advising the
State's Attorney General on key issues. He was a Commissioner
on the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominee's Evaluation,
and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee
which made recommendations for Federal Judicial Appointments
and was appointed by President Clinton as Chair of the Civil
Liberties Public Education Fund in January, 1996. Currently,
he serves on the Board of Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream
Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Angel Island Immigration
Station Foundation.
He
has taught at U.C. Berkeley and Mills College in Oakland
and was the Co-Executive Producer (with Philip Kan Gotanda)
of "Drinking Tea" and "Life Tastes Good",
both of which were screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
He was also a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc. a
co-founder of the Asian American Bar Association of the
Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and
the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans.
In
recognition of his achievements, Mr. Minami has received
numerous awards including the American Bar Association's
2003 Thurgood Marshall Award, the 2003 ACLU Civil Liberties
Award, an honorary Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge
School of Law, and the designation of a dormitory at the
University of California at Santa Cruz as the "Queen
Liliuokalani-Minami" Dormitory, among other awards.
For
more information about Dale and his firm, visit MinamiTamaki.com.
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