Keyword: «responsibility of a lawyer»

The relevance of the research problem is due to the profound transformation of the legal profession under the influence of modern digital technologies, when traditional ethical regulators of a lawyer's professional activity lose their unconditional normative force, giving way to new, not yet fully understood forms of the legal profession. The rapid introduction of algorithmic systems into law enforcement practice and legal education poses unprecedented challenges for professional deontology, requiring a philosophical and legal understanding of the very possibility of preserving the "human-centered" dimension of legal activity in the context of increasing algorithmization. The aim of this study is to identify the essential characteristics of the transformation of the ethical imperatives of legal practice in the digital era and to conceptualize the risks of dehumanization of the legal profession that this transformation entails. The leading approaches to the research problem are an interdisciplinary approach, which allows for the integration of the achievements of legal science, ethics, and the philosophy of technology, as well as a hermeneutical approach, which focuses on interpreting the meaning transformations of basic deontological categories and phenomena in the new digital space. The main results of the research are the justification of the thesis that the digital transformation of law creates a fundamentally new configuration of a lawyer's professional activity, where traditional imperatives of impartiality, independence, and loyalty to professional duty are complemented by the requirement to preserve the human dimension of justice and to responsibly confront the algorithmic reduction of legal reality. The study identifies key risks of dehumanization of the legal profession, including the loss of the empathic component of the lawyer's profession, the substitution of professional judgment with algorithmic decision-making, and the erosion of the lawyers’ personal responsibility for the results of their professional activity. The theoretical significance of the research lies in its contribution to the development of the conceptual foundations of lawyer's professional ethics in the context of the digital transformation of law and the state. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the findings in the development of educational programs for training lawyers and ethical codes for the legal community that take into account the new challenges of the digital era.