Information and information technology as an integral part of a lawyer’s professional activity

In this paper, an analysis theoretical and applied issues related to the realization by a lawyer of his professional rights, aimed at the formation of a proper and admissible base of evidentiary information, as well as the need to use modern information technologies in the lawyer's activity. The purpose of article is reserching the nature of interaction of information and information technologies and professional activity of a lawyer, in particular, through the prism of the use of advanced information technologies in advocacy. In the process of discovering the subject of the research, both the authors of the study used a set of general scientific and special methods, which are characteristic of legal science, both to achieve the purpose of the work and to ensure the scientific objectivity, completeness, reliability and convincing of the obtained results. In particular, with the help of the system-structural method, the general structure of scientific research was formed, which provided the fullest disclosure and solution of the tasks posed to the authors. The dialectical method of knowledge of legal reality provided an opportunity to analyze the different types of information technologies used in the professional activity of a lawyer. General scientific methods of analysis and synthesis have been widely used in the scientific article. The method of systematic analysis, which is one of the main methods of this study, made it possible to achieve the goals and tasks set by the authors, and the synthesis method was used in the construction of the author's conclusions and other theoretical provisions. It is necessary that the multidimensionality of professional activity of the lawyer, namely protection, representation and provision of other types of legal assistance, determines and use of various information technologies in the business of everyday professional activities. Based on the research, it is concluded that information and information technology is an important part of a lawyer's professional activity, the effectiveness of which depends largely on the level of information support of the latter and the ability to use it. The general features of the most common types of information technologies used in the lawyer's activity are revealed, namely: reference and legal systems, information (automated) systems, unified and state registers, Internet, technical devices and programs, etc.