Recent trends and developments impacting in-house counsel in Japan (EN/JA)
BY David Gilmore, James Allsop |
As governments around the world took steps to try and contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, business were forced to adapt to large scale remote working. This sudden shift was particularly acute for those Japanese corporations, which traditionally favoured in-office working. While this change in working practices created obvious technological and logistical challenges for maintaining business continuity, it also created a number of legal and compliance challenges for in-house counsel teams.