Legal News

Japanese Bar Cracks Down on Foreign Attorneys
Times are tough and guilds are supposed to protect their own, as the Japanese Bar has done, here requiring all foreign attorneys operating in Japan, even, apparently, employees supervised by gaiben partners, to register as gaiben A requirement that all foreign lawyers be registered as gaiben would fundamentally change the landscape of firms operating in Japan...

A counsel(-less) perspective on crack retroactivity
This news article, headlined "Failure emerges in call for shorter crack sentences: Many inmates are not given lawyers," reports on an interesting (and troublesomely disparate) aspect of the implementation of the USSC new crack guidelines: As federal courts begin deciding...

Corporate Japan closes up.
In "Power Struggles", The Economist reports that Japan is excluding foreign investors and may be the "the most closed market in the industrialised world".

Japan Cautiously Willing to Entertain Citizenship for Babies Born in Japan of Unmarried Japanese Men
Unmarried Japanese citizen and foreign national conceive and have Baby in Japan. Is the Baby a Japanese citizen? Until recently, the answer would be no - unless the Japanese father acknowledges the Baby before its birth - or the father marries the mother before the Baby’s twentieth birthday...

U.S. Patent Attorney - Law Firm - Japan
A leading Japanese intellectual property firm located in Nagoya, Japan, seeks a US attorney having a Juris Doctor (J.D.) with admission to a state bar and registration to practice before the U...

Japan court rejects law denying citizenship to illegitimate children of foreign mothers
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Japan [official website] Wednesday struck down a law denying Japanese citizenship to children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers and foreign mothers...

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

Schwan's Frozen Chicken
Recalled for Foreign Materials

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.