Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu has beefed up its numbers with another hefty batch of recruits as it looks beyond Japan in a global strategy that foreruns other Japanese firms.

NO&T has hired 23 new graduates from the Supreme Court’s Legal Research and Training Institute. This is in addition to the seven newly badged lawyers who joined the firm in September.

The hiring spree could partially be attributed to an increase in staffing needs required from the new Wall Street office that NO&T opened in August this year, in addition to a new co-operative alliance formed with Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson which has seen NO&T seconding its lawyers to Allens’ Asian offices (plans are in place to dispatch lawyers to places such as Hanoi, Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City).

The alliance, announced in October 2010, was made to focus on providing legal services to Japanese clients in Australia and Southeast Asia (excluding Singapore and Malaysia).

Allens Arthur Robinson has four offices in Australia and eleven overseas offices mainly in China and Southeast Asia.ALB

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