Teraoka & Partners: experienced attorneys getting results for you

STEVEN G. TERAOKA is the Managing Partner of Teraoka & Partners LLP, a San Francisco based international corporate law firm specializing in domestic and international transactions. Mr. Teraoka has been practicing law for the past 43 years as both a business transactional and trial attorney. He now serves as…

CATHERINE M. GORMLEY was born in Washington, D.C. and raised on the East Coast and then in Taipei, Taiwan, where she attended the International School of the Sacred Heart and graduated from Taipei American School. While in Taiwan, she studied classical Chinese opera. The exhilarating experience of living in Asia fostered…

YAERI YAMAMOTO joined Teraoka & Partners LLP in 2013, where she practices corporate, business, intellectual property and executive immigration law.

She received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she was a member of the Constitutional Law Quarterly and the…

JOSEPH D. CALHOUN III, a registered patent attorney, has over twenty-five years of legal and related business experience in commercial litigation and client counseling, especially in the intellectual property fields. Besides assisting clients in obtaining patents for inventions and registration protection for trademarks…

WILLIAM RAUCH has been practicing for over 30 years and was formerly associated with the San Francisco law firms of Dinkelspiel and Dinkelspiel and then Hancock, Rothert and Bunshoft, LLP.  Bill will assist in handling business, probate and trust administration and litigation.

JOHN A. KITHAS was born in Ogden, Utah and was educated at the University of Utah.  Mr. Kithas graduated in 1971 with a degree in Economics and a Certificate in International Relations.  In 1974, Mr. Kithas graduated from the University of Utah College of Law.  During the 1973-1974 year,…

NAHO SHIOGUCHI is a certified paralegal, having graduated with highest honors from San Francisco State University’s Paralegal Studies Program, an American Bar Association accredited paralegal program.  She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature from Kobe College in Japan in 2000. …

ERIC Y. NISHIZAWA In 1984, Mr. Nishizawa was conferred a Bachelor of Arts in History by the University of California at Los Angeles. After his undergraduate studies, Mr. Nishizawa studied Japanese for a year at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Tokyo, Mr. Nishizawa also interned at the…

ELIZABETH SHOEMAKER joined Teraoka & Partners LLP with considerable international business experience, having served as an international planning analyst and IT strategist for Fujitsu Limited in Japan and as a marketing manager for a Tokyo software company.

She also owned and operated a software support

KATSUYA (“KEN”) NISHIKAWA was admitted to the bar, 2000, California. Education: Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (B.A., 1987); University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Master of Business Administration and Masters of Business Taxation (1991); Loyola University School of Law (J.D., 2000).…

STEVEN GARRETT has experience advising and representing individuals, public agencies, and Fortune 500 companies before California state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels.  He has represented clients in complex litigation involving diverse practice areas such as products liability,…