Representative, Yoshikawa Law Firm
Message from the Founding Partner
Keishi Yoshikawa
吉川 景司
Our approach
Considering both how companies operate and how courts decide
Our firm includes lawyers with experience handling legal matters within companies and lawyers with experience hearing civil cases as judges. In examining a matter, we weigh two perspectives against each other: how decisions are made within a company, and what may prove decisive if a dispute arises.
Organizing facts and evidence from the outset
When a problem arises, it is important to establish the facts on which the legal assessment will be based. Relevant records and documents may be lost over time. From the outset, we distinguish confirmed facts from matters that remain unverified and identify the records that should be preserved.
Not separating routine advice from the response to disputes
Routine work, such as reviewing contracts and developing internal structures and procedures, cannot be separated from the response to disputes and misconduct. Contracts and records prepared in the ordinary course of business become material for review when a dispute arises. Conversely, issues that arise in disputes can inform later reviews of those structures and procedures.
Starting from the company’s circumstances, not from a field of law
What clients first face is not the question “What area of law does this fall under?” but a situation such as “We have received a notice from a business partner” or “An employee appears to have taken documents out of the company.” A single event often involves several areas of law. Our firm starts from the situation a company faces, identifies the relevant areas of law, and organizes the issues that need to be considered.
