Meet Our Team

We're passionate, we're dedicated, and there isn’t a more knowledgeable or experienced team in Japan.

Hiroshi Kurosaka

Hiroshi Kurosaka

Practice Areas:
Financial Services, Private Practice, Compliance

Hiroshi specializes in the recruiting of mid to senior level Bengoshi, legal counsels and compliance officers for financial institutions and law firms.

Paul Cochrane

Paul Cochrane

Practice Areas:
Private Practice, Compliance, In-house Corporate

Paul has over a decade of Legal and Compliance recruitment experience, all in Tokyo.

Koichiro Suzuki

Koichiro Suzuki

Practice Areas:
In-house Corporate, Private Practice, Compliance, Financial Services

A founding member of Just Legal, Koichiro has been in the recruiting market in Tokyo for almost ten years.

Yuna Yoshimasa

Yuna Yoshimasa

Practice Areas:
Private Practice, In-house Legal

Yuna specializes in the healthcare industry and assists pharmaceutical, medical devices, diagnostics companies, and health tech companies with their mid to senior legal (both Bengoshi and FQLs)

Yuki Wada

Yuki Wada

Practice Areas:
Financial Services, Compliance, Private Practice

Yuki’s responsibility covers the recruitment of Bengoshi, foreign qualified legal counsel and compliance officers for multinational and domestic companies and law firms.

Florence Bouchier

Florence Bouchier

Practice Areas:
Private Practice

Florence joined Just Legal after completing her LLB at University College London. With first-hand experience in the competitive nature of the legal market,

Amara Nagayama

Amara Nagayama

Practice Areas:
Financial Services

Amara joined Just Legal after graduating with a degree in management from the University of Bath in the UK.

Aida Wang

Aida Wang

Practice Areas:
Private Practice

Aida is specialised in the recruitment of both Bengoshi and Foreign Qualified Lawyers for domestic and international law firms.

Justy Beagle

Justy

Practice Areas:

Justy is our resident legal beagle with nose keenly focused on the market

Our Story

After nearly 20 years of legal & compliance recruitment in Japan we decided that being independent was the best move for the people we serve and for ourselves. We’ve always taken a logical, customer-focused approach to recruitment – it’s not based on the numbers of CVs sent out to hiring managers, but rather founded on market knowledge, professional integrity, solid methodology and long hours of hard work in-between – all with the goal of trying to make clients and candidates happy. And let’s face it, lawyers and compliance officers are different from other professionals in their options and the way that they think about their careers. Our business embraces those differences to give you customised services. With our intimate knowledge of the market we provide tailored recruitment services and solid career and business advice that you cannot get anywhere else.