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Emily K. Tanaka

Associate

Emily’s practice focuses on commercial lending and real estate. Her clients range from high value residential real estate clients to businesses and lenders of affordable housing projects.

Overview

Emily’s practice focuses on commercial lending and real estate. Her clients range from high value residential real estate clients to businesses and lenders of affordable housing projects.

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)