Kanagawa Administrative Lawyers Association

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of Administrative Lawyers established in each local government throughout Japan. The professional members of the Federation are about 45,000 including legal professional corporations. The purpose of the organization is to provide affairs of continuing legal education, liaison, information, and expertise as well as affairs of registration for practitioners. There are major 12 standing committees, a Central Training Institute for continuing legal education, and 8 district Councils. The new ofce of the Federation is located in the center of Tokyo, close to government ofces and the Embassy of the United States.2) Kanagawa Administrative Lawyers Association (Kanagawa-Ken Gyoseishoshikai)The Association, founded in June, 1951, is one of chapters under the Japan Federation of Administrative Lawyers Associations. The Association is mandatory and integrated organization, therefore lawyers having an office in Kanagawa Prefecture have to register with the local Association and pay membership fee every year to practice their business. The Association actively support members by serving variety of functions such as professional educational seminar, meetings, guidance, liaison by publications and website, free telephone counseling, Pro Bono Activity, sending lecturers, advertisement of Administrative Lawyers function, maintaining ethics and dignity, improvement and expansion of business, and as a focal point for delivering related information and resolving varieties of local issues, etc. The Association provides resources to help the members of 19 branches with more than 2,500 including professional corporations in the territory become better lawyers.The office of Kanagawa Administrative Lawyers Association is located in the center of Yokohama-City where they opened their port rst in Japan to the world as one of international trade ports in the end of Edo Period. There are varieties of ofces of foreign companies, China Town, the U.S. military base, and more than 100 aliens such as Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Brazilian, Peruvian, and Pakistani, etc. are residing in Kanagawa Prefecture. Accordingly, the Association rst among chapters started free telephone counseling for aliens in three languages, English, Chinese and Japanese, as Pro Bono Activity to handle problems of aliens.

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