Abstract
The flow of today's judicial reform involves not only judges, prosecutors, and lawyers, but also original paralegal professions in our country, called 'Shiho-shoshi', 'Gyosei-shoshi', etc.
Although the system of 'Shiho-shoshi' has a history of 100 years or more after the Meiji era, the legal basis is ambiguous and the institutional base tends to vary due to the streamlining of register offices, computerization of registration, etc.
Under these conditions, various figures of the 21st century's 'Shiho-shoshi' have been drawn. In this paper, an arrangement is made of historical development and current matters, an attempt is made to classify by type based on the results of a questionnaire administered in Fukushima and Kanagawa prefectures, and some opinions are proposed about what should be the legal profession and the 'Shiho-shoshi' of 21st century.
