News

2024/12/13: NEWHighly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025.

2024/12/11: NEWHighly-evaluated in Japan Law Firm Awards 2024.

2024/11/18: VLT won the "National Elite" at the IEL Elite 2025.

2024/11/15: IEL Awards 2024: VLT has been named for Highly commended in the "Boutique Law Firm of the Year"

2024/09/25: VLT has been shortlisted at the IEL Awards 2024.

2024/08/09: Our lawyer, Akiko Yamakawa participates as panelist in the webinar on “Navigating employment termination in Asia” organized by Lexology.

2024/07/23: Our lawyers were selected for Japan's Top 100 Lawyers in "The A-List 2024" by Asia Business Law Journal's research.

2024/06/12: VLT receives award at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2024.

2024/03/26: VLT Legal Update

2024/01/17: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

2024/01/04: Masahiko Kinoshita becomes a new partner.

2023/12/14: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024.

2023/12/04: We won the "National Elite" at the IEL Awards 2023.

2023/11/24: Highly-evaluated in Japan Law Firm Awards 2023.

2023/10/12: VLT has been shortlisted at the IEL Awards 2023.

2023/07/14: Our lawyers were selected for Japan's Top 100 Lawyers in "The A-List 2023" by Asia Business Law Journal's research.

2023/04/19: Highly-evaluated in the 2024 edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan™ "

2023/03/02: Release the 2023 edition of Asia-Pacific employment law bulletin

2023/01/11: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

2022/12/15: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023

2022/12/12: Highly-evaluated in Japan Law Firm Awards 2022

2022/10/07: ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS Published Comments with Akiko Yamakawa on “Gender Pay Gap in Japan” in October 2022.

2022/09/01: Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo 5th Anniversary

2022/07/22: Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo Recently Obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (JIS Q 27001:2014) Certification.

2022/06/21: In the June 2022 issue of ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS JAPAN, VLT was elected as one of “Top 10 Law Firms to Watch Now”.

2022/06/02: ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS Published Interview with Akiko Yamakawa on “Gender Diversity among Lawyers in Japan” in May 2022.; Web magazine can be found here.

2022/06/02: We won the ２ categories at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2022.

2022/01/12: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022

2022/01/04: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022

2021/10/06: Akiko Yamakawa was named a Public Relations Officer for the JCAA (The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association) in October 2021 .

2021/10/01: We won the ２ categories at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2021.

2021/02/18: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Global 2021

2021/01/13: Highly-evaluated in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021

2020/12/30: Highly-evaluated in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021

2020/09/24: We won the "Boutique Law Firm of the Year" at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2020.

2019/06/14: We won the “Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year” at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2019.

2019/05/07

Office Relocation

Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo is pleased to announce the relocation of our office to the following new address:

New Address:
Shin-Tokyo Building 2F-246
3-3-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0005 Japan
(Please note that the telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses for each of us remain the same.)

2019/04/05: Our lawyers were selected for top rankings in the 10th edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan".

2019/04/04: On 25 March 2019, Akiko Yamakawa participated as panelist in the panel discussion on Ghosn/Nissan/Renault case organized by Temple University Japan Campus.

2019/01/30: Naoki Kinami and Akira Nakazawa were featured in Eurobiz Japan (January 2019) article titled "Work Place".

2019/01/11: Website renewed.