Lawyers are an elite group of professionals who have been selected through the extremely difficult bar examination, and are promised high status and high income. As such, they have been regarded as being free from stress. There have been no academic studies on stress among lawyers in Japan and only a few in other countries. The purpose of this study was to examine stress factors for lawyers. A questionnaire survey of lawyers was conducted via the Internet, data from 140 lawyers were submitted for analysis. The questionnaire consisted of the Japanese Burnout Scale (JBS), items measuring stress factors for lawyers (job demands and job resources), and items related to personal attributes. Multiple regression analyses using the three subscales of JBS as the objective variables revealed that for emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, “long working hours” and “work-life balance” were significant explanatory variables as positively related, and “anxiety about the economic conditions” and “relationship with clients” as negatively related. For reduced personal accomplishment, “relationship with clients” and ” employment lawyers (Isoben)” were significant explanatory variables as negatively related.