Amendments of the Federal chamber of advocates to the code of professional ethics of the advocate:eliminating old mistakes and do not make new ones!

Purpose: Study of the proposals of the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation on the discussion of amendments to the Code of Professional Ethics of the Advocate. Methodology: The methods of structural and functional analysis, the systemic method, the formal legal method, the method of studying documents, the method of participatory observation were used. Results: It was concluded that a number of the proposals of the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation considered in the article, published on December 29, 2020 on the organization’s website, cannot be included in the Code of Professional Ethics of the Advocate, since they violate the provisions of the current legislation, run counter to the principles of corporation and equality of advocates, they are contrary to the interests of advocates and the advocacy profession. The directions for improving the Code of Professional Ethics of the Advocate in the interests of protecting the rights of advocates and the development of the advocacy profession are proposed. Novelty/originality/value: The article is of high scientific and practical value, since it is a study of an urgent problem of the modern Russian legal profession.