February 15, 2002

Japan Tries to Reform How It Trains Lawyers

By ALAN BRENDER

A hidebound system has many defenders, but change seems to be on the way

Imagine that no law schools existed anywhere in the United States, and all lawyers were required to take a national bar examination that only 3 percent were allowed to pass. Imagine, further, that those who passed were required to spend a year and a half in Washington to be trained at an institute controlled by the Supreme Court. At the institute, some students would be selected as prosecutors or judges, and the

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