You may have issues such as ​

• Urgently need to hire new legal staff due to sudden staff resignation, but difficult to find with ease, need to take time for proper selection process

• Want to hire legal staff, but facing budget issue for full-time.

• Legal staff is deployed but have rooms to strengthen the function.

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So, this is proposal to use qualified lawyer like your company's legal staff. Service can be provided by your needs such as temporary support until hiring new staff, supplement legal function partially etc.

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The service called as ALSP (Alternative Legal Service Provider) or LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) etc. provides wider range of service than legal advisor, so provides not only such as contract review, internal rule making support etc. but also following services as example.

•  BoD, Shareholder meeting etc. management (Preparing materials, minutes etc.)

• Creating compliance training materials 

• Quick answer to questions through chat application (For those cases no official opinion is needed, but want to proceed after getting comment from the lawyer etc.).

• Contract management (Segregating final seal process from the business in view of internal control etc.).

• Support staff skill-up

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Matters of course, many companies are thinking to hire in-house legal staff and it might be common choice for companies. However, companies need to owe social insurance, employee benefit in addition to common salary in case companies hire staff as employee. Also, companies might need to pay commission to recruitment agency in case. Furthermore, it's actually difficult to terminate permanent employment contract due to some reasons. In that respect, outsourcing service can be used only for necessary period, time and companies are possible to terminate contract in the middle of the term based on conditions. On the other hand, if more commitment is needed, it's also possible to increase time for service. Therefore, I believe it's beneficial for companies in view of flexible use. 

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​I, Katsuhiro Iwayama, have been working for companies for nearly 30 years and have committed to legal, compliance related works with hands-on. Further, I have ever worked for such as risk management as adjacent works, sales, investment as well. For industries, I have a wide range experiences in financial services (insurance), IT, manufacturer, travel business etc. So, I believe that I can provide well-balanced legal services with relevant business into account. 

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Services in English is welcome. So, I also believe that I can accept a wide range of needs.

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The office is located in Higashi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (nearest stations are Bakuro-cho or Bakuroyokoyama), but online consultation support throughout Japan is available.　Please feel free to contact if you have any interests.​

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English speaking lawyer Tokyo