If you are contacting us for the first time, please make a reservation for a face-to-face legal consultation. You can make a reservation by phone or email. We will respond to let you know our availability. We may agree to meet with you outside our business hours or on public holidays subject to our availability.

Please be advised that we will not accept any legal consultation
by phone or email without a face-to-face meeting.

• When you contact us outside our business hours, you can leave a message on voicemail. Please ensure you record your name and phone number so that we can respond. If you do not provide all relevant details in your message, we may not be able to contact you appropriately.

• Please ensure you provide us with your name and contact details. If you do not provide all relevant details, we may not be able to contact you appropriately.

• We may ask you to provide us with certain documents and materials. We will let you know the details when we accept your reservation.
• We may not accept your reservation due to conflict of interest or other reasons.

We will advise you on the likely direction and schedule of the matter and possible options available to you, to the extent available, at the time when we meet with you and receive details of your request for services. We will provide our legal advice on legal issues on the spot to the extent we are able to do so.

Our legal fees for the first face-to-face legal consultation are Yen 11,000 per hour (including consumption tax).

We will explain the details of our legal fees and applicable expenses when we accept your request for services. You can find a summary of our legal fees below.

The method for calculating our legal fees depends on the nature of the matter and the client’s requirements. Our principal methods for calculating our legal fees are “Time Charge” or “Retainer and Contingent Fee” as set out below:

Time Charge:
Our legal fees will be based on the time spent by the lawyers working on your matter and the hourly charging rates applicable to those lawyers from time to time.

Retainer and Contingent Fees:
A retainer fee will be charged when we accept your request for services. A contingency fee will be charged depending on the degree of success of the outcome of your matter in addition to the retainer fee.

We will provide clients with an estimate of our fees and costs upon request and to the extent possible.