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Emily K. Tanaka

Associate

Emily is an associate in the Finance and Real Estate Department. Her background includes training in dispute resolution, which she leverages in her representations of complex transactional matters.

Overview

Emily is an associate in the Finance and Real Estate Department. Her background includes training in dispute resolution, which she leverages in her representations of complex transactional matters.

Emily earned her law degree at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. While attending law school, she served as Managing Editor of the UC Irvine Law Review. Emily also served as a judicial extern for Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna of the Supreme Court of Hawai‘i.

Prior to law school, Emily earned a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Law School Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Emily graduated from Pepperdine University, magna cum laude, where she played Division I soccer.

Emily grew up in Kailua, Hawai‘i, and is a graduate of ‘Iolani School.

Education

  • J.D. (2022), University of California, Irvine School of Law, magna cum laude
  • Master’s Degree (2019), Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
  • B.A. Political Science (2018), Sociology, Sustainability, Pepperdine University

  • “New Federal Rule Requires Entities Making More Than 100 Loans to Small Businesses to Collect and Report Data to the Federal Government,” Cades Schutte ke kumu (Spring/Summer 2023) (Co-Author)