Legal ethics of a lawyer as a component of his professional culture

• Тимошина Людмила Михайловна

  Lyudmila M. Timoshina. Vladivostok State University. Vladivostok. Russia

The author's research interests focus on the formation of legal ethics and legal culture among students within the university educational process. In the course of professional pedagogical activity, particular attention is given to fostering legal ethics and professional culture among future lawyers. The author examines the phenomenon of a lawyer's professional culture, emphasizing its definition as an integrative quality of personality, which encompasses pro-fessional legal knowledge and legal theories, as well as essential personal at-tributes—values, moral and ethical norms, cultural concepts, and psychological resilience—necessary for professional practice. Additionally, the study identi-fies the components of a lawyer’s professional culture, including intellectual, valuebased moral-ethical, and practical-activity components, and highlights their interrelationship. Special emphasis is placed on the value-based moral-ethical component and its ethical dimension. The phenomenon of legal ethics is analyzed, with attention to its evolving nature. The conceptual foundations of this phenomenon are not rigidly fixed but transform and become enriched with legal, moral, and ethical ideas in response to the development of society and legal practice. The studied phenom-
ena are dynamic, and their formation de-pends on the evolution of society, social relations, values, moral and ethical norms, legal practice, and legal experience across various areas of legal activ-ity.
Keywords: ethics, legal ethics, culture, legal culture, university educational process