Keyword: «lawyer»

The article is devoted to the study of images of judges and lawyers in the language consciousness of students. The article examines the attitude of young people to the personal and professional qualities inherent in people of these specialties. Data from an Association experiment and a questionnaire are analyzed. The main purpose of the article is to determine the main characteristics that, in the opinion of respondents, belong to a lawyer and a judge. As respondents, 100 students from the Northeast Federal University aged 18 to 25 took part in the survey.

The article is devoted to the concept and principles of advocacy

This study examines the ethical and moral aspects of defence counsel’s appearance in court in criminal proceedings. Analysis of the concepts of morality and ethics in relation to the role of defence counsel in criminal proceedings, and proposed classification of the moral and ethical features of his appearance in court.

In the legal schools within the discipline «Professional ethics of lawyers» in the program of training of students-bachelors, studying on the course 40.03.01 «Jurisprudence» the ethical foundations of the activity of a lawyer are studied. The importance of discipline in legal profes-sional ethics is great, because it actively forms the moral image of future lawyer as a highly-qualified, decent and following the rules of ethics of a specialist in the field of law. The article presents the main problematic issues of professional ethics of a lawyer.