New Year's Greeting

Happy New Year.

On behalf of everyone at Ainsworth Albright Lawyers, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the trust and confidence you have placed in us over the past year.

The year 2025 marked a period of profound transformation across Australia, Japan, and the global community. Geopolitical uncertainty, the historic transition in financial conditions, and the rapid evolution of technologies such as artificial intelligence have fundamentally reshaped the environment in which businesses operate and individuals make critical life decisions. These changes have highlighted the limitations of traditional legal frameworks and have brought into sharp focus the need to reconsider the role of legal services in modern society.

Throughout 2025, our firm continued to develop and refine its structural approach to legal problem-solving, delivering solutions that integrate legal risk, cross-border considerations, and the interests and background circumstances of the parties involved, with the objective of producing outcomes capable of real-world implementation. Our work in cross-border disputes, financial institution matters, employment and human resources, and succession and asset structuring has reaffirmed the importance of a practical, structured methodology in addressing complex legal challenges.

Since 2025, our corporate vision has been encapsulated in the concept of “So-shin”, which reflects our commitment to creating new legal value and advancing proactively into the future, rather than merely reacting to change. The experiences gained over the past year have demonstrated that this philosophy is not aspirational, but essential.

Looking ahead to 2026, we anticipate that uncertainty will remain a defining feature of the legal and commercial landscape. In response, we will continue to develop our services around three strategic pillars: cross-border risk management, advanced employment and governance advisory, and the structural resolution of succession and family-related disputes. By deepening our expertise in these areas, we aim to provide legal services that combine technical excellence with practical implementation capability.

Ainsworth Albright Lawyers is committed to identifying emerging challenges, anticipating the needs of our clients, and continuously creating new legal value in a rapidly changing world. Guided by our vision of So-shin, our lawyers will work collectively to support you at every critical juncture.

We wish you every success and fullfillment in 2026.

Ainsworth Albright Lawyers 

John Urabe 

Principal Lawyer