Soichiro Fujiwara was ranked first in the "Restructuring and Bankruptcy" division, Chisako Takaya was ranked fourth in the "Labor" division, and Hideki Matsui and Eriko Ozawa were ranked sixth in the "Corporate Legal Affairs" division of the "Corporate Legal Affairs and Lawyer Survey 2009" carried out by Nikkei Inc. to determine the best performing lawyers of 2009 (reported in the morning edition of "The Nikkei" on Dec 24, 2009). The English version of this article was published in The Nikkei Weekly on Jan 18, 2010.