当事務所は、本年１１月１日付で深山卓也弁護士を顧問弁護士として迎えました。
以下、深山卓也弁護士の入所のご挨拶を掲載いたします。

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本年９月１日をもちまして裁判官を定年退官し、同１１月１日付で第一東京弁護士会に弁護士登録するとともに、T M I総合法律事務所に顧問弁護士として入所いたしました。

私は、昭和５７年に東京地裁判事補として任官したのを振り出しに、出身地である東京と地方の裁判所とを往復する形で、専ら民事、商事、行政事件を担当する裁判官として各地の裁判所に勤務した後、任官１５年目の平成８年に倒産法制の改正作業を担当する参事官として法務省民事局に出向し、以後、途中で２年ほど裁判所に戻った時期を挟んで、法務省に合計１７年間にわたり勤務し、その間、民商事法分野の様々な法律の制定、改正の作業に従事しました。法務省における最終ポストは民事局長であり、その当時の最大の懸案は、法制審議会における議論が紛糾していた民法（債権法）の改正内容を取りまとめることでしたが、私は、平成２７年の通常国会に民法（債権法）の改正法案が提出されたのを見届けて裁判所に戻り、地裁所長、高裁長官等を経て、平成３０年からは最高裁判事として様々な法解釈問題を含む事件の解決に当たってまいりました。

これからは、弁護士として当事務所で仕事をする中で、これまでの裁判実務の経験や法律の立案事務の経験を活かし、微力ながら、社会のお役に立てればと考えておりますので、どうぞよろしくお願い致します。

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TMI Associates welcomed Mr. Takuya Miyama as an advisor attorney as of November 1, 2024.
Mr. Miyama’s comments are below.

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Having retired as a judge on September 1, 2024, I became registered with the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association as an attorney as of November 1, 2024, and now join TMI Associates as an advisor attorney.
Ever since my appointment as an assistant judge of the Tokyo District Court in 1982, I worked in courts all over Japan as a judge in charge of civil, commercial and administrative cases, moving between Tokyo, my hometown, and other regions. In 1996, my fifteenth (15th) year as a judge since my aforementioned first appointment, I was seconded to the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice as a counsellor in charge of the amendment of insolvency legislation. Since then, except for two (2) years in which I was back in the courts, I have been engaged in establishment and amendment of various laws in the fields of civil and commercial laws in the Ministry of Justice, for seventeen (17) years in total. My final post in the Ministry of Justice was as the Director-General of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the most challenging issue at that time was to arrange amendments of the Civil Code (Claim Act) which was in controversy in the Legislative Council. After having ascertained that the bill to amend the Civil Code (Claim Act) was introduced at the ordinary Diet session in 2015, I returned back to the courts as president of a district court and of a high court, etc., and, since 2018, was engaged in resolving cases involving various issues concerning construction of the law as a justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
I will endeavor to contribute to our society making the most of my experience to date in court and trial practice and the drafting of laws, through working as an attorney with you in this firm.
Thank you.