As a result, foreign lawyers operating here have been forced to navigate a forest of obstacles.
Until recently, the number of foreign lawyers in the United States was relatively small.
He was one of the few foreign lawyers allowed to practice in courts there at the time.
A year later, however, the foreign lawyers have not proved to be the menace that the Japanese feared.
The only other foreign lawyers here before last year were the "trainees" in Japanese companies.
My object was to help foreign lawyers understand the institutional context in which Americans will resolve their concerns about security and basic human rights.
There are several circumstances in which the registration of a foreign lawyer may be cancelled.
Their answer was that laws on foreign lawyers do not apply to us.
But within three years afterward, Japan had changed its laws, restricting all foreign lawyers.
He's likely to capitalize, so to speak, on his experience and start a consulting company to serve foreign lawyers.