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Attorney glut may hit foreign firms
By - 03-01-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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One of the interesting things about being part of Japan's new law school system and its role in greatly increasing the number of Japanese attorneys is this: Nobody seems to have bothered asking the Japanese people if they actually need more attorneys. The original target of increasing the number of people allowed to pass the annual Japanese bar exam to 3,000 by 2010 was based on a government target of achieving an attorney-to- population ratio comparable to France by the turn of the decade. (Why France? Nobody seems to know.)
No sooner had the first law school graduates (the class of 2006) who passed the exam hit the job market in the fall of 2007 than a hue and cry arose from bar associations across the country: There were too many new attorneys! There was not enough work for them all! Excessive competition would lead to lower quality! And the quality of these new attorneys is pretty iffy in any case!
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The Japan Times Online
By - 03-01-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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One of the interesting things about being part of Japan's new law school system and its role in greatly increasing the number of Japanese attorneys is this: Nobody seems to have bothered asking the Japanese people if they actually need more attorneys. The original target of increasing the number of people allowed to pass the annual Japanese bar exam to 3,000 by 2010 was based on a government target of achieving an attorney-to- population ratio comparable to France by the turn of the decade. (Why France? Nobody seems to know.)
No sooner had the first law school graduates (the class of 2006) who passed the exam hit the job market in the fall of 2007 than a hue and cry arose from bar associations across the country: There were too many new attorneys! There was not enough work for them all! Excessive competition would lead to lower quality! And the quality of these new attorneys is pretty iffy in any case!
Read More...
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The Japan Times Online
