Legal ethics of a lawyer as a component of his professional culture

The author's research interests focus on the formation of legal ethics and legal culture among students within the university educational process. In the course of professional pedagogical activity, particular attention is given to fostering legal ethics and professional culture among future lawyers. The author examines the phenomenon of a lawyer's professional culture, emphasizing its definition as an integrative quality of personality, which encompasses professional legal knowledge. and legal theories, as well as essential personal attributes – values, moral and ethical norms, cultural concepts, and psychological resilience – necessary for professional practice. Additionally, the study identi-fies the components of a lawyer’s professional culture, including intellectual, value-based moral-ethical, and practical-activity components, and highlights their interrelationship. Special em- phasis is placed on the value-based moral-ethical component and its ethical dimension. The phe- nomenon of legal ethics is analyzed, with attention to its evolving nature. The conceptual foundations of this phenomenon are not rigidly fixed but transform and become enriched with legal, moral, and ethical ideas in response to the development of society and legal practice. The studied phenomena are dynamic, and their formation de-pends on the evolution of society, social relations, values, moral and ethical norms, legal practice, and legal experience across various areas of legal activ-ity