Eric Sedlak Co-Chair	Arshad Karim Co-Chair	Haig Oghigian Vice Chair

2008 Committee Description
Monitors legal and regulatory changes, legislative initiatives and other law-related issues that affect the foreign business community in Japan. Actively pursues liberalization of the rules restricting the activities of foreign lawyers in Japan and the Japanese lawyers engaged in practice with them.

2008 Committee Objectives

• Continue advocacy efforts on unrestricted freedom of association
• Focus other advocacy efforts on due process
• Offer programs of interest to a broader segment of ACCJ members

• Assuring Due Process: Central to AMA Reform -- Competition Policy Task Force, Corporate Counsel Subcommittee, Legal Services Committee
• Potential Negative Impact of Expanded AMA Surcharges -- Competition Policy Task Force and Legal Services Committee
• Unrestricted Freedom of Association -- Legal Services Committee
  
• Achieve Transparency in the Rulemaking Process Through Greater Access to and Participation in Shingikai -- Legal Services Committee
• Expansion of the Legal Profession is Critical for Judicial System Reform -- Legal Services Committee
• •    Public Comment Process More Transparency Needed Legal Services Committee and Corporate Counsel Subcommittee (being updated)