A Potential Market Worth Twenty Trillion Yen: Towards Reaping a Bonanza From Legal Services

The liberalization of the business of law will save Japan and herald the true birth of the quaternary sector of the economy!
This work constitutes an electronic version of A Potential Market Worth Twenty Trillion Yen: Towards Reaping a Bonanza From Legal Services, which was released at the same time as Why Even A Monkey Could Practice Law In Japan was published.
 
(Main contents)
The legal profession in Japan is brimming with inefficiencies and absurdities. For example, collaborations with non-lawyers are prohibited. As well, there are plenty of incompetent, decrepit lawyers who earn high levels of income simply by handling a mere twenty to thirty cases a year. The legal profession in this country is a closed one that uses the “autonomy of lawyers” as an excuse to allow these problems to fester. If reform of the judicial system can lead to real changes in the Attorney Act and the legal profession, a market for legal services worth in excess of twenty trillion yen will surely emerge. Such reform could even act as a kiss of life for the ailing Japanese economy! Home Lawyers director Kenshi Nishida delivers his compelling case for why it is necessary to pursue the liberalization of the legal services sector.
 
Part I. Article 72 of the Attorney Act: Binding the Hands of Lawyers
Part II. The Contradictions Inherent in the Idea of Bar Associations and a Twenty Trillion Yen Market
Part III. Reform Legal Practices that are Characterized by Low Productivity!
Part IV. Changing the World by Realizing the Business Opportunities Inherent in the Practice of Law!
Part V. A Big Bang in the World of Lawyers and Home Lawyers
Part VI. The MIRAIO Group – Committing to Changing Japan

(Background of author)
Kenshi Nishida
Director, Home Lawyers Law Office
Kenshi Nishida was born in Sasebo City, Nagasaki in 1949. After graduating from Sasebo Minami High School, he entered Hitotsubashi University, where he majored in law. As a student, he headed Hitotsubashi University’s second Amazon exploration team. After graduation, he joined Nissho Iwai. He began practicing law in 1987. He gained renown as an international human rights lawyer for his work in addressing the problem of Japanese orphans and people of mixed ancestry left behind in the Philippines in the aftermath of World War II, and issues involving Japanese immigrants in the Dominican Republic.
 
* The Home Lawyers Law Office has changed its name to the MIRAIO Law Office.
* This work constitutes a version of Why Even A Monkey Could Practice Law In Japan (published by Gentosha Media Consulting in December 2008) that has been released for the iPhone/iPad.