Minami Tamaki

What Minami Tamaki does

Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm founded in 1975 that operates through four dedicated practice groups: Personal Injury (plaintiff-side auto, bicycle, motorcycle, pedestrian, premises liability, medical malpractice, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, and senior injury matters on contingency); Consumer and Employee Rights (class actions and individual cases involving consumer fraud, antitrust, data breaches, wage and hour, discrimination, and whistleblower retaliation); Business and Nonprofit Counseling (outside in-house counsel for start-ups, later-stage companies, and nonprofit organizations with endowments in the hundreds of millions, billed on engagement); and Immigration and Nationality Law (nationwide employment- and family-based visas, PERM, naturalization, I-9 audits, and M&A immigration support). The firm is organized as a California limited liability partnership, reports approximately 17 attorneys on its roster, and serves clients ranging from individual injury plaintiffs to multinational corporations across technology, biotech, finance, and other industries, as well as religious organizations and community nonprofits.

The firm's technology footprint is limited to standard legal-practice tooling — the LawLytics content and practice management platform and a secure 'Welcome Client' web portal that lets immigration clients track case status — augmented by forensic methods in litigation such as MRI/fMRI imaging for traumatic brain injury cases, digital accident reconstruction (including an exact-duplicate semi-truck) for visibility studies, and scanning electron microscopy to identify carbon fiber delamination in product liability matters. None of these constitute proprietary software or AI/ML assets; they are evidence-gathering techniques applied within the personal injury practice.

The firm's revenue mechanics are split across two models. Personal Injury and most Consumer & Employee Rights matters are handled on contingency, with the firm taking a percentage of settlements and verdicts — producing episodic, lumpy revenue but with very high unit economics on the multi-million-dollar recoveries disclosed (a $1.05B consumer antitrust class action, a $4.5M stage-dive verdict, a $4.325M truck/bicyclist recovery, and a $7M wrongful death settlement, among others). Business & Nonprofit Counseling and Immigration work is engagement-based, billed at rates the firm describes as 'value-driven' for nonprofits and 'in-house counsel experience' pricing for businesses, providing steadier recurring revenue. The go-to-market motion is direct intake via phone and an online contact form, supplemented by content marketing (active blog, webinars, email list), earned media in national and legal trade press, bar-association speaking, and a multilingual community-marketing push including Chinese-language pedestrian-safety PSAs.

Name

Minami Tamaki

Legal name

Minami Tamaki LLP

Website

https://minamitamaki.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm founded in 1975 with roughly 17 attorneys, serving individuals, families, startups, multinational corporations, and nonprofits through four practice groups: Personal Injury, Consumer and Employee Rights, Business and Nonprofit Counseling, and Immigration and Nationality Law.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Personal Injury Contingency Fee Representation: Plaintiff-side personal injury representation on a contingency fee basis, with the firm recovering a percentage of settlements and verdicts (multi-million dollar outcomes disclosed across auto, bicycle, motorcycle, pedestrian, premises liability, medical malpractice, TBI, wrongful death, and senior injury matters).
2. Consumer & Employee Rights / Class Action Litigation: Plaintiff-side class action and individual representation for consumers, investors, and employees harmed by illegal or unfair business/employment practices; 'recovered tens of millions of dollars for our clients' in class action and individual cases.
3. Business & Nonprofit Counseling (Outside In-House Counsel): Ongoing outside general counsel engagements billed on a value-driven rate structure for start-ups, later-stage companies, and nonprofit organizations (including those with hundreds of millions in endowment), covering corporate, employment, technology, hospitality, M&A, and nonprofit-specific matters.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Minami Tamaki LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm that delivers legal representation through four practice groups: Personal Injury (auto, bicycle, pedestrian, premises liability, medical malpractice, TBI, wrongful death), Consumer and Employee Rights (class actions and individual cases for consumers, investors, and employees), Business and Nonprofit Counseling (outside in-house counsel for start-ups, later-stage companies, and nonprofits), and Immigration and Nationality Law (employment-based and family-based immigration for corporations and individuals nationwide).

Product overview

Minami Tamaki LLP is a single San Francisco-based law firm (founded 1975) delivering legal services through four dedicated practice groups that together form its overall offering: the Personal Injury Practice, the Consumer and Employee Rights Group, the Business & Nonprofit Counseling practice, and the Immigration and Nationality Law practice. Rather than a software platform, the firm offers a portfolio of legal services organized by practice area, supported by a team of partners, senior counsel, senior associates, and associates. Clients (individuals, families, start-ups, mature companies, and nonprofit organizations) engage with the firm through the practice group that best matches their matter, and the firm coordinates across groups (for example, Immigration works with Business and Employment Practices on cross-cutting issues like M&A, I-9 audits, and policy work).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Personal Injury Practice

Quantifiable outcome

• $1.05 billion antitrust monetary recovery (largest in history for consumers)
• +22 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and moderate.

• Szeto-Wong LawminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-counsel relationship on civil rights matters. Together with Szeto-Wong Law, Minami Tamaki won a civil rights case in Sutter County on behalf of Rouble Claire, who experienced racial harassment and intimidation, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (May 2025).
• Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (KABANC)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerCommunity/industry partnership for immigration thought leadership. Partner Suhi Koizumi is a featured speaker at KABANC's immigration panel held on August 7, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Fragomen's San Jose office. The panel connects Minami Tamaki with Korean-American legal and HR audiences.
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)minorOthersProfessional association partnership. Partner Olivia Serene Lee co-authored an article on noncitizen voting in non-federal elections in the AILA Law Journal (Oct 24, 2025), raising the firm's profile within the immigration bar.
• Fragomen (San Jose office)minorOthersVenue host for industry events. Provided the San Jose office (2755 Orchard Parkway) as the venue for the KABANC Immigration Panel where Minami Tamaki Partner Suhi Koizumi spoke on August 7, 2025.
• San Francisco Bicycle CoalitionminorOthersCommunity advocacy partnership. Several Minami Tamaki attorneys are cyclists and members of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and are actively involved with nonprofit organizations advocating for pedestrian and cyclist safety.
• ACLU, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, American Immigration Council, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and dozens of other organizationsmoderateOthersBoard and advisory committee service across civil rights, immigration, and Asian-American advocacy organizations. Attorneys have served on judicial selection committees and as commissioners on state and federal bodies, supporting pro bono, fundraising, and community-service initiatives.

Scale indicators17 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Dolan Law Firm: San Francisco personal injury, employment, and consumer protection firm. Closely comparable in service mix (PI plus plaintiff-side employment/consumer) and Bay Area geography.
• Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL): Major U.S. corporate immigration firm serving multinational employers with H-1B, L-1, and PERM work. Directly comparable to Minami Tamaki's corporate immigration practice, though technology-platform-led and substantially larger.
• Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy: Burlingame-based California plaintiffs' firm with major class action, consumer protection, and personal injury work. Comparable in contingency-fee economics, Northern California geography, and high-profile plaintiff verdicts.
• Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy: Global immigration law firm; already a co-host/venue partner with Minami Tamaki at the KABANC Immigration Panel. Most directly comparable peer to the firm's National Tier 1 Immigration and Nationality Law practice, though materially larger and global in scope.
• Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein: San Francisco-based plaintiffs' firm with a similarly strong class action, consumer protection, and personal injury practice. Most directly comparable firm by practice mix, geography, contingency-fee economics, and record-breaking verdicts (e.g., multidistrict class action leadership).
• Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger: San Francisco personal injury and wrongful death firm with a comparable Million Dollar Advocates Forum–credentialed plaintiff practice, multi-million-dollar verdicts, and a Bay Area footprint. Closest direct peer in the PI practice that defines Minami Tamaki's flagship work.
• Jassy Vick Carolan LLP: San Francisco-based employment class action and consumer protection firm. Closely comparable to Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Rights Group in plaintiff-side employment and consumer class actions.

Broad incumbents

• Ogletree Deakins: National employment and labor law firm with hundreds of attorneys. Overlaps with Minami Tamaki's Consumer and Employee Rights Group on the employer-counsel side and provides a large-firm benchmark for the firm's plaintiff-side employment practice.
• Reed Smith: Global full-service law firm with significant personal injury defense, immigration, and nonprofit practices. Represents the broader competitive context for all four of Minami Tamaki's practice groups.
• Lewis Brisbois: National full-service firm with a large California presence including personal injury defense, immigration, and general counsel work. Useful benchmark for the geographic and practice-mix competitive landscape.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/minamitamaki
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/minami-tamaki
• Instagraminstagram.com/minamitamakilaw
• Xx.com/minamitamaki

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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