Legal Practice for Corporate Clients in Tokyo
An Empirical Study
1991 Volume 1991 Issue 43 Pages 155-158,229
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1991 Volume 1991 Issue 43 Pages 155-158,229
This study sought to obtain empirical data on the state of legal practice for corporate clients in Tokyo. In 1988 a questionnaire containing seventeen questione was sent to a random sample of 500 praticing attorneys in Tokyo; 185 questionnaires were returned with valid answers to most of the questions ask ed.
Some of the findings of the survey are as follows;
(1) Cosiderably more attorneys in Tokyo are trying to handing to handle such matters as company law or economic law cases, intellectual property matters and non-contentious work, which generally have not been an important source of business for Japanese laeyers.
(2) Most respondents consider the size of their own firm to be smaller than is adequate.
(3) 17% of attoreys habe had business contact with gaikokuho jimu bengoshi offices, whose presence in Tokyo has made 7% of respondents think they have to take some measures to rationalize their owe practice.
