Keyword: «professional ethics»

In the modern world there are higher requirements to the professional ethics of a lawyer. They influence the formation of a highly moral professional legal consciousness of a lawyer-professional, guided in professional activities by the norms of morality, professional ethics and official etiquette. The article presents the main requirements related to the meaning of professional ethics, imposed on all representatives of legal professions in modern Russian society.

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.