News

2023/07/14: NEWOur lawyers were selected for Japan's Top 100 Lawyers in "The A-List 2023" by Asia Business Law Journal's research.

2023/04/19: Highly-evaluated in the 2024 edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan™ "

2023/03/02: Release the 2023 edition of Asia-Pacific employment law bulletin

2023/03/01: VLT Quarterly Legal Update

2023/01/11: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

2022/12/15: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023

2022/12/12: Highly-evaluated in Japan Law Firm Awards 2022

2022/10/07: ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS Published Comments with Akiko Yamakawa on “Gender Pay Gap in Japan” in October 2022.

2022/09/01: Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo 5th Anniversary

2022/07/22: Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo Recently Obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (JIS Q 27001:2014) Certification.

2022/06/21: In the June 2022 issue of ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS JAPAN, VLT was elected as one of “Top 10 Law Firms to Watch Now”.

2022/06/02: ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS Published Interview with Akiko Yamakawa on “Gender Diversity among Lawyers in Japan” in May 2022.; Web magazine can be found here.

2022/06/02: We won the ２ categories at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2022.

2022/01/12: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022

2022/01/04: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022

2021/10/06: Akiko Yamakawa was named a Public Relations Officer for the JCAA (The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association) in October 2021 .

2021/10/01: We won the ２ categories at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2021.

2021/02/18: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Global 2021

2021/01/13: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021

2020/12/30: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021

2020/09/24: We won the "Boutique Law Firm of the Year" at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2020.

2019/06/14: We won the “Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year” at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2019.

2019/05/07

Office Relocation

Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo is pleased to announce the relocation of our office to the following new address:

New Address:
Shin-Tokyo Building 2F-246
3-3-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0005 Japan
(Please note that the telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses for each of us remain the same.)

2019/04/05: Our lawyers were selected for top rankings in the 10th edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan".

2019/04/04: On 25 March 2019, Akiko Yamakawa participated as panelist in the panel discussion on Ghosn/Nissan/Renault case organized by Temple University Japan Campus.

2019/01/30: Naoki Kinami and Akira Nakazawa were featured in Eurobiz Japan (January 2019) article titled "Work Place".

2019/01/11: Website renewed.