It has been two years since legal education reform started in Japan. The Justice System Reform Council envisioned the 21st century lawyer as a lawyer who "not only has highly developed professional legal knowledge but also has required strong legal ethics based on wide cultural knowledge and...

Critics have long complained that lawyers dissipate value. Some do, of course. Some legal work dissipates more value than others, and the lawyers who focus on the most notorious rent-seeking sectors extract a heavy toll in the U.S. Whether lawyers choose to focus on value-dissipating or...