Signs of advocacy in Russian law and legal science

Purpose: Analysis of the state of legal regulation and doctrinal views on the signs of advocacy, systematization of the attributes of advocacy. Methodology: The methods of structural and functional analysis, the system method, the formal legal method, the method of studying documents, the method of observation included were used. Results: Among the signs of advocacy are the following. 1. The advocacy is a community of independent professional legal advisers who meet the criteria established by law and have acquired the status of a lawyer, have equal rights and obligations in the framework of the practice of advocacy, and in the framework of participation in corporate self-government procedures. 2. Along with lawyers, the community of lawyers also includes people who promote the practice of law (lawyer interns, lawyer’s assistants, other persons, employees of law enforcement authorities (corporate governance) and public associations of lawyers). 3. The structural elements of the community, directly provided for by law, are the bodies of advocate self-government (corporate governance bodies), advocate associations, public associations of advocates that have certain structural and functional relationships with each of the advocates as members of the community...