Abstract
Since legal specialist fields are fractionalized according to qualification, the relationship between lawyers and other legal professionals, such as patent lawyer, judicial scrivener, licensed tax accountant, administrative scrivener, etc., is likely to be discussed as a problem of area of responsibility. However, the party who needs legal assistance is not necessarily interested in the legal specialty but in whether the problem can be settled by the appropriate legal professional. Recently, competition and resistance for establishing an area of responsibility between lawyers and other legal professionals has been intensifying; on the other hand, they have already been engaging in collaborative work on a daily basis. However, little attention has been given to collaborative work and little has been discovered in terms of what could be accomplished and maintained through such collaboration between lawyers and other legal professionals. From the viewpoint of the needs of people, cooperation between lawyers and other legal professionals must lead to the provision of a “one−stop service” that provides legal services to fulfill the varied requirements of people. Considering two patterns of “one-stop service,” namely, office communalization and joint holding consultation, this paper conducts an investigation of what collaborative work between lawyers and other legal professionals could accomplish and maintain and in which direction could such collaboration progress for the provision of effective legal services.
