Keyword: «lawyers»

The authors of the article study the importance of professional communication and certain aspects of J.P. lawyers’ personality for their professional activities success. Also, the article presents the results of an empirical study of J.P. lawyers’ personality psychological aspects, important for their professional communication.

The relevance of the study is due to the need of analysis of value orientations of various groups of student youth, the results of which can later be used to develop scientific and methodological recommendations of a psychological and pedagogical nature and improve educational work in higher educational institutions. The purpose of this work is to analyze value orientations of students studying at higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg in the area of training “Jurisprudence” of various profiles. The study revealed that the most significant values for respondents are “Self-Direction”, “Hedonism”, “Achievement” and “Benevolence”. Statistically significant differences between groups of male and female students were recorded at the level of normative ideals for the value “Universalism”, at the level of individual priorities for the values “Universalism” and “Tradition”.

This article examines the process of evolution of the institute of advocacy, from ancient times to the present. The main stages of this historical process are presented, including the judicial reform of 1864, and the post-revolutionary period of 1917, and finally, modernity. A comparative analysis of the pre-reform analogues of the legal profession is given, using the example of solicitors and attorneys with professional advocacy, which arose after the judicial reform of Alexander II.