トラブルが起きてから弁護士を探すのでは、選択肢も時間も限られてしまいます。顧問契約があれば、迷ったその場ですぐに相談でき、問題が小さいうちに芽を摘むことができます。契約書の作成・チェック、日々の法律相談、契約書レビューは顧問料の範囲で随時。「いつでも相談できる専門家がそばにいる」という安心が、経営判断のスピードと質を変えます。

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契約書・社内規程の作成とリーガルチェック、経営判断への助言、債権回収、誹謗中傷・風評対策、知的財産の保護まで、企業が日々直面する課題に幅広く対応します。トラブルを減らし、強い組織をつくり、利益を伸ばす――そのための緻密な法的支援を、業態も規模もさまざまな顧問先と積み重ねてきました。多様な現場を知るからこそ、御社の実情に即した実践的な助言ができます。

取引先との契約トラブル、損害賠償請求への防御、カスタマーハラスメント・不当要求への対応まで、企業を当事者とする民事紛争・訴訟に幅広く対応します。交渉・調停・訴訟のいずれの局面でも、御社の権利を最大限に守り、迅速かつ確実な解決を導きます。

債権回収・強制執行では、金融機関の代理人として多数の貸金・保証履行請求を担当し、不動産・債権・動産の仮差押・本差押を合計100件近く経験。回収の確かなノウハウで、貸したお金・売掛金を取り戻します。

不動産の売買・賃貸・仲介・管理・開発・立退きに重点的に取り組み、土地建物をめぐる権利関係や契約責任の民事紛争を数多く扱ってきました。設計・監理・施工に関する契約の作成・校正にも多くの実績があり、定型書式でも個別事情に応じた特約やリスクヘッジを助言します。英文建築契約にも対応し、外国人が関わる取引や国際共同開発でも、日英双方で紛争を防ぐ契約をご提案。北海道で増える外国人不動産取引のトラブルも、両言語で未然に防ぎます。

欠陥住宅・建築瑕疵をめぐる難解な紛争も、調停・訴訟で多数解決してきました。代表弁護士は長年、札幌弁護士会・住宅紛争審査会の紛争処理委員を務め、第三者的・専門的な視点を備えています。契約づくりから紛争解決まで、一貫してお任せください。

企業の悩みの多くは「人」に関わります。労働組合対応、問題社員・不良従業員への対応、ハラスメント問題、未払い残業代請求への防御、解雇・退職をめぐるトラブルまで、使用者側の労働問題に一貫して対応します。就業規則・社内規程の整備により、紛争の芽を未然に断つお手伝いもします。

横領をはじめとする従業員の不正には、証拠の保全から責任追及、被害回復まで踏み込んで対応。残業代請求に対しては、勤務実態と制度運用を緻密に立証し、不当な請求を退けた実績があります。配置転換の適法性をめぐる訴訟で、人事権の正当な行使を完全に認めさせた事案など、難しい労働紛争でも会社を守り抜きます。

企業の大切な資産である知的財産を、守り、活かすための支援を行います。著作権侵害・商標権侵害をめぐる紛争では、権利者側・被疑者側のいずれの立場でも、侵害の成否を的確に分析し、警告書への対応から差止・損害賠償の交渉・訴訟まで対応します。大手企業からの商標法違反のクレームを解決した実績もあります。

紛争対応にとどまらず、商標出願（商標登録申請）のサポートも行っています。自社のブランド・ロゴ・サービス名を権利として確保し、模倣や便乗から守る。ネーミングの段階からの相談で、後々の紛争リスクを抑えます。著作権法・知的財産法に関する研修・講演も多数手がけており、デジタル時代の著作権実務にも精通しています。

外国人雇用に強い事務所として知られています。技能実習制度では監理団体の顧問弁護士・外部監査人として多数の実績を持ち、法令遵守と不正防止の実効的な監査・助言を提供。特定技能の登録支援機関にも顧問として継続的にサポートしています。採用・労働条件・労働環境・社会保険・休職・退職・解雇まで、外国人材を受け入れる企業のご相談に、豊富な経験で迅速かつ的確に対応します。

海外取引・国際展開も力強く支えます。英文契約書のリーガルチェック・翻訳・作成に多数の実績を持ち、紛争予防・契約履行・リスク評価の観点から緻密に校正・助言。代表弁護士は大学でアメリカ法・ヨーロッパ法を体系的に学んだ専門家で、難易度と分量に応じた明確なお見積りを事前にご提示します。

病院・介護施設・保育園・幼稚園・児童福祉事業者・大学など、公益性・公共性の高い法人を、クライアントの一定割合が占めています。代表弁護士は複数の国立大学で非常勤講師を務め、利益相反マネジメント委員会の外部委員、研究費不正・公益通報の申立窓口も担当。組織のガバナンスと公益通報制度の運用に精通しています。コンプライアンス委員会の委員や内部通報窓口として、組織の「内側」から支える体制も整えています。

不祥事対応・第三者委員会に強い事務所として、不正・不祥事の発生時には初動から関与します。証拠保全・事実調査を行い、第三者性を担保した客観的な原因分析を実施。調査報告書の作成、再発防止策の提案、コンプライアンス体制の再構築まで一貫して対応し、信頼回復と社会的責任の履行を支えます。委員としての豊富な経験に基づき、透明性・中立性を確保しながら、実効性ある解決策を提示します。

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Establishing a business in Japan — and especially in Hokkaido — involves hurdles that are hard to navigate from abroad: company formation, tax and social-insurance procedures, financing talks with banks, visa applications, finding a Japanese director, purchasing land, and contracting with builders. We provide genuine one-stop support across all of these, in English, so you can move forward with confidence.

We have hands-on experience taking clients all the way from incorporation, through tax and social-insurance setup, to real-estate purchase and construction contracts — a complete package rarely offered by a single firm. For resort and property development in Niseko and elsewhere in Hokkaido, we advise on land acquisition, contractor selection, contract review to guard against unforeseen losses, and development approvals.

We also offer ongoing advisory (retainer) contracts, giving your business a trusted legal partner in Japan you can turn to at any time.

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In corporate law, the most important thing is to prevent disputes before they arise. Through an advisory (retainer) contract, we handle the drafting and review of contracts and internal rules, advice on management decisions, debt collection, defamation and reputation issues, and the protection of intellectual property. Having a lawyer on call means you can consult the moment a question arises and cut off risk at the contract stage.

Even with the best prevention, disputes happen. We handle the full range of civil disputes and litigation involving companies — contract trouble with business partners, defense against damages claims, and responses to customer harassment and unreasonable demands. Whether in negotiation, mediation, or court, we protect your rights to the fullest and drive toward a swift, reliable resolution.

In debt recovery and enforcement, we have acted as counsel to financial institutions on numerous loan and guarantee claims, with close to 100 provisional and final attachments of real estate, receivables, and movables — proven know-how for getting your money back.

We focus heavily on the sale, lease, brokerage, management, development, and eviction of real estate, and have handled many civil disputes over property rights and contractual liability. We have extensive experience drafting and reviewing design, supervision, and construction contracts, advising on special clauses and risk hedges tailored to each case — even where standard forms are used. We also handle English-language construction contracts, drafting bilingual agreements that prevent disputes in transactions involving foreign parties and international joint developments.

For the difficult, highly technical disputes over defective housing and construction defects, we have a strong record of resolution through mediation and litigation. Our representative attorney has long served as a dispute-resolution member of the Sapporo Bar Association's Housing Dispute Review Board, bringing a third-party, specialist perspective. We support you seamlessly, from contract drafting to dispute resolution.

Many corporate headaches come down to people. We provide consistent, employer-side support on labor unions, problem and underperforming employees, harassment, defense against unpaid-overtime claims, and trouble over dismissal and resignation. By putting work rules and internal regulations in order, we help cut off disputes before they take root.

For employee misconduct such as embezzlement, we go all the way — from securing evidence to pursuing liability and recovering the loss. We have defeated unreasonable overtime claims by proving actual working practices, and obtained a complete judicial finding that a contested personnel transfer was a lawful exercise of management rights. In the toughest labor disputes, we protect the company.

We help you protect and make the most of intellectual property — one of a company's most valuable assets. In copyright- and trademark-infringement disputes, we act for either rights holders or alleged infringers, accurately analyzing whether infringement exists and handling everything from responding to cease-and-desist letters to negotiating and litigating injunctions and damages. We have resolved a trademark complaint brought by a major company.

Beyond disputes, we also assist with trademark applications (trademark registration) — securing your brand, logo, and service names as rights and shielding them from imitation. Advising from the naming stage helps head off future disputes. We have also delivered numerous seminars on copyright and IP law, and are well versed in copyright practice in the digital age.

We are known as a firm strong in foreign employment. Under the Technical Intern Training Program, we have served many supervising organizations as advisory counsel and external auditor, providing effective audits and advice from the standpoint of compliance and fraud prevention. We also support registered support organizations for specified skilled workers on an ongoing basis. From hiring and working conditions to social insurance, leave, resignation, and dismissal, we respond to employers of foreign talent quickly and precisely.

We also strongly support cross-border trade and international expansion. With an extensive record in the review, translation, and drafting of English-language contracts, we proofread and advise from the perspectives of dispute prevention, performance, and risk. Our representative attorney studied U.S. and European law systematically at university and provides clear, advance estimates based on difficulty and volume.

A meaningful share of our clients are highly public-interest organizations — hospitals, care facilities, nurseries, kindergartens, child-welfare providers, and universities. Our representative attorney lectures at several national universities and serves as an external member of a conflict-of-interest management committee and as a contact point for research misconduct and whistleblowing reports, with deep familiarity in governance and whistleblower systems. We also support organizations from the inside, as compliance-committee members and internal-hotline contacts.

As a firm strong in misconduct response and third-party committees, we engage from the first moment when wrongdoing occurs — securing evidence, investigating the facts, and conducting an objective, independent analysis of causes. We see it through to the investigation report, recommendations to prevent recurrence, and the rebuilding of compliance systems, supporting the restoration of trust and the fulfillment of social responsibility.

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