General characteristic of system of legislative regulation of advocate activity and organization of legal profession for Justinian’s code

Purpose: To carry out research of legislative regulation of legal profession of the late Roman Empire according to standards of the Code of Justinian. Methodology: The historical-legal and formal-legal method were used. Results: Systematization of standards of this act in which the standard rules relating and to lawyer activity are connected together (including positive conditions for obtaining the status of the lawyer and the privilege of lawyers), and to the organization of legal profession is presented in article (for example - assigned amount of lawyers in each part of the Roman Empire, and also regulation of the status and activity of special category of lawyers of Ancient Rome - lawyers of a fisk). Thanks to comprehensive character of the act - Justinian’s Code - the offered review of norms gives an idea of all range of legislative regulation of various aspects of legal profession of the Late Roman Empire. Novelty/originality/value: Article has the high scientific and practical value as is modern attempt of consideration of an actual problem.