Lawyers Flee Tokyo For Australia

Australia’s The New Lawyer? is reporting that? law firms are relocating lawyers to Australia and other regional offices in a bid to keep lawyers out of risk.


In the New Lawyer report that can be read in full at

http://www.thenewlawyer.com.au/article/blakes-norton-rose-bring-tokyo-lawyers-to-aus/528477.aspx

They write…


Blake Dawson, the only Australian law firm with a stand alone office in Japan, today confirmed it has relocated its Tokyo-based lawyers. Coincidently, the firm will hold a corporate group conference in Sydney this weekend that the lawyers would have attended, and the Tokyo lawyers are leaving for Sydney tonight.

Head of the firm’s North Asia practice, Ian Williams, told The New Lawyer that since the team was due in Australia this weekend, and are now able to bring their families with them to Australia. “We’ve decided while the power plant is uncertain they can bring their families along with them. We’re motoring the situation.”

Those members of staff will continue to work remotely from the firm’s Sydney or Melbourne office before returning to Tokyo. “Until the situation is clearer we think it is better for them to stay in Australia,” Williams said.

Full report at link above