Lawyer training as one of his professional duties: general provisions

Abstract

This article is devoted to the issues related to clarifying the essence of the professional duty of a lawyer to improve their skills.
 This article examines the different approaches of scholars, as well as reveals the position of the legislator to determine the legal nature of the institute of professional development, which is perceived as one of the defining professional responsibilities of a lawyer. International and regional standards are also analyzed, which are important for the formation of quality national (domestic) standards of organization and activity of the bar.
 The position is argued that the improvement of a lawyer’s qualification is one of his defining responsibilities, the consolidation of which is primarily aimed at ensuring the proper implementation of the constitutional right of a person to receive professional legal assistance. Emphasis is placed on the fact that such assistance is impossible without a lawyer with the appropriate set of knowledge and experience in solving the tasks assigned to him, awareness of the specifics of tactics and methods of advocacy, possession of a wide range of both procedural and non-procedural methods of professional assistance.
 To achieve this goal, the author used methods typical of legal science. The research was conducted using primarily the system-structural method and the dialectical method of cognition of legal reality.
 Based on the study, the author concludes that the continuous and continuous improvement of lawyers’ skills plays an important role in the functioning of the professional bar and is one of the main prerequisites for the successful functioning of the justice system as a whole. as one of the basic principles of the organization of advocacy, which in essence is a mandatory standard of the legal profession.