Law school reforms cause glut in lawyers, may lead to more lawsuits against foreign firms in Japan

The Japan Times reports. 

Attorney glut may hit foreign firms

excerpt

----Japan has a multiplicity of legal professions. These include administrative and judicial scriveners (some of whom have quietly taken to calling themselves "lawyers" in English), maritime law specialists, social insurance and labor consultants, patent agents, registered foreign attorneys and tax consultants. All provide a form of legal service in their own area of specialty.

Thus, while in the U.S. licensed attorneys have an almost complete monopoly over the provision of all legal services, the monopoly of Japanese attorneys is essentially limited to representing people in connection with litigation, and being able to call themselves "attorneys" (bengoshi).----

ELT in Japan: An online magazine for EFL teachers in Japan and E. Asia

TEFL Forum: ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010) as .pdfs you can download

ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010) as dowloadable .pdfs

ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010)

I. Folder of three .pdfs that can be viewed as GoogleDocs or downloaded as .pdf

II. As separate articles:

A. Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests


B. Semantic Mapping Activities for the Speaking Class


C. Semantic Mapping Activities for the Writing Class

TEFL Forum: ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010)

Note: the previously proposed article on pronunciation will run as a two-part series (preview) at the ELT-J homepage and will then be re-published in final form in ELT-J Issue #3. The entire issue #2 of ELT-J will be made available later this month in downloadable .pdf. Watch for future posts.    

01 March 2010

ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010)

ELT in Japan Issue 2 (March 2010)

Contents

(1)  Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests
(2)  Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class
(3)  Semantic mapping activities for the writing class