As a part Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu's cooperation with the program of "Research and Practices on Arbitration, ADR, and Negotiation " at Sophia Law School, a workshop was held which mainly consisted of conciliation role plays and arbitration role plays by the Sophia Law School students, and lectures by practitioners and researchers.

At the said workshop, in addition to lectures on arbitration and conciliation by Norimitsu Arai, the following members of Shuji Yanase, Masato Dogauchi, Jun Naito, Norimitsu Arai, Saotoshi Moriguchi, Koki Yanagisawa, Eriko Ogata, Masatoshi Suzuki and Akihiro Tozawa took part as mediators in the conciliation role plays and as arbitrators in the arbitration role plays, and reviewed and commented on the briefs, arbitral awards, etc. prepared by the law school students.