Bengo4.com Publishes "Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025" Surveying and Analyzing the Use of AI and DX in Seven Professional Services Including Lawyers and Tax Accountants

　Bengo4.com (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Taichiro Motoe, Representative Director, President and CEO, Lawyer; hereinafter, “the Company”) announces that its Professional Tech Lab, which investigates and communicates new possibilities for the use of professional knowledge, has published and announced the Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025  (104 pages in total), investigating and analyzing the use of AI and the outlook for digital transformation (DX) in seven professions (lawyers, tax accountants, certified public accountants, judicial scriveners, administrative scriveners, social insurance and labor attorneys, and patent attorneys).

■ Background to publication of the Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025

　Bengo4.com was founded in 2005, and this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. For the past 20 years, the Company has leveraged the power of technology to support the work of lawyers and tax accountants. In recent years, the widespread adoption of generative AI is bringing about major changes in the way professionals work. In light of these changes in the professional environment, the Company has published the Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025 to explore the potential for advancement through the use of technology, not only in its own business areas (primarily legal services and tax accountancy), but also in the seven professions as a whole.

　The Company has conducted wide ranging research and analysis into the present and future of the seven professions, including calculating DX expectation scores across the seven professions, summarizing and analyzing the issues for each profession, conducting surveys of the professions and their users, interviewing service developers, and creating a DX services list. Amid concerns that the work of professionals may be replaced by AI, Bengo4.com hopes that this white paper will provide some hints as to how the use of AI by professionals can help spread specialist knowledge throughout society.

■ Free PDF Version Application Form

　The PDF version of the Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025 will be distributed free of charge to all applicants, not only those in the legal professional services industry. Please apply using the form below, and download the file from the URL in the reply email.

　https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13WbcHqOUN4wmb88VPguq2jXXOBMGDeH4DVtxmkv8e2Y/edit

■ Contents of Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025

- Kazuhiko Toyama, Chairman of IGPI Group, Inc. and President and CEO of Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation, Inc. (JPiX)

- DX expectation scores for the seven professions

- Understanding and recognition of the seven professions

- Summary and issues for lawyers

- Summary and issues for tax accountants

- Summary and issues for certified public accountants

- Summary and issues for judicial scriveners

- Summary and issues for administrative scriveners

- Summary and issues for social insurance and labor attorneys

- Summary and issues for patent attorneys

- Survey of lawyers and tax accountants

- Voices of administrative scriveners and social insurance and labor attorneys

- Survey of general users

- Survey of self-employed individuals and managers of small and medium-sized companies

- Survey of corporate legal affairs personnel

- Shun Yamamoto, Kanehito Kita, and Kotaro Kurashige

- List of around 400 DX services relating to each profession

- Interview with Teruhisa Yokosuka on the future of professional services and technology

- Lisse Co., Ltd.: Miki Fujita, CEO (lawyer)
- Beso Inc.: Mei Nakata, Director and COO (tax accountant)
- ROBON INC. Norio Ogiwara, Director and CSO (tax accountant and certified public accountant)
- HRbase Co., Ltd.: Hiromichi Mita, CEO (social insurance and labor attorney
- Cotobox Inc.: Kazuyasu Gomi, CEO (lawyer)

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■ Event to Commemorate Publication of the White Paper held on Wednesday, March 26, 2025

　To commemorate the publication of the Digital Transformation in Professional Services: White Paper 2025, Bengo4.com will be holding an event on Wednesday, March 26, entitled Career Strategies in the Professional Services DX Era. The focus of the event will be a talk session with four professionals who have appeared in interviews for the white paper. We look forward to your participation in this event.

- Ayumu Asakura (tax accountant and CEO of San Kyodo tax attorneys)

- Minoru Sugawara (lawyer and Managing Partner and COO, AZX Professionals Group)

- Hiromichi Mita (social insurance and labor attorney and CEO, HRbase Co., Ltd.)

- Teruhisa Yokosuka (administrative scrivener and professional consultant)

19:00-20:45 March 26 (Wed.), 2025 (JST)

Bengo4.com Tokyo Headquarters (4-1-4 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

*The event will also be streamed online.

Free (Anyone may participate, not only legal professionals.)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnxGYlsnQE6Tv93AtMZOm1Q_MDpPVmYKE8NRqMBYBwq4RMmw/viewform

■ About Professional Tech Lab

　Professional Tech Lab is a research organization that investigates and analyzes professional tech, which is one of the missions of Bengo4.com, Inc. It explores digital transformation (DX) in professional fields and solutions to social issues through the fusion of knowledge, skills, and technologies of not only lawyers but also various other professionals.