Features advocate's legal status in Ukraine

Purpose: Research of concept and structure of legal status of the advocate in Ukraine and his fixing in the Law of Ukraine «About advocacy profession and advocate's activity». Methodology: The author applied formal-legal method and a method of the included supervision. Results: In article situation that legal status of advocate represents a combination of the rights, duties of the advocate, responsibility and guarantees of his activity is formulated. The conclusion that the Law of Ukraine «About advocacy profession and advocate's activity» did not justify the related hopes on increase of legal status of the advocate in society is also drawn, it is noted that a number of the rights and guarantees of activity of the advocate, fixed in the law, has declarative character. Novelty/originality/value: Article represents the scientific value as it is one of the first attempts of the analysis of legal status of advocate in the Ukrainian republic by the new legislation.