Meet and connect with the dedicated Asia-Pacific team and discover which market each member of the team focuses on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chambers research team assesses lawyers and law firms across more than 200 jurisdictions around the world, providing independent and impartial intelligence and market insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each year the Asia-Pacific team conduct thousands of interviews with in-house counsel and lawyers including many interviews conducted in Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the latest of our Meet the Team series, today we introduce one of our jurisdictional experts, Marie Ito<\/strong>. Marie is a highly experienced Research Associate and native Japanese speaker with a specialist focus on the Japan legal market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n My name is Marie Ito and I am a senior member of the Chambers research team, located within the Asia-Pacific team and mainly focusing on researching the Japanese legal market. Having been raised in Japan I am a native Japanese speaker and have extensive experience engaging with the market in Japan, having previously worked in the finance and technology industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Chambers, I frequently speak with various market participants, including lawyers and consumers of legal services, in Japanese, allowing me to get a deeper insight in the market and connect with a broader spectrum of participants. 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