Training as an interactive teaching technique in the professional education of future lawyers

The paper deals with the development of legal consciousness and legal thinking of future lawyers. By a case study of a training seminar within the Master’s Degree course on Legal Educational and Training Techniques, the author highlights the didactic possibilities and effectiveness of this method in modern transforming social and legal reality. Nowadays, it requires not only high-level legal knowledge and skills but also social and psychological stability of the personality of a law school graduate. Such training exercises as Legal Associations and Yin-Yang are proposed to develop the integral legal consciousness and legal thinking as a system with rational and irrational elements. This type of workshops helps avoid routine elements in the learning process, updates communication between teacher and students, and makes goals and objectives clear and understandable for all actors of education.