The design of legal activity: the conceptual stage

The article considers the methodology of legal activity. In particular, it describes the conceptual design stage of the cycle of legal activity, formulates the approaches to the definition of the main contradictions of the problems, their interdependence and congruence. The work discusses goal-setting technology, including the situations of uncertainty needs of the client and of uncertainty of the legal ways to resolve the main contradictions. The relationship between the need of a subject of legal activity and legal means as levels of goal setting is determined. In the article the criteria of legal activity, including the conditions under which the legal activity can be considered to be effective are defined.