Legal regulation of the conflict of interest institution in advocacy under the laws of the Russian Federation
Considered the legal regulation of conflict of interest in Russian legislation, the legislator’s approaches to the definition of «conflict of interest», as well as to the analogous definition of «personal interest» and prohibition as a method of counteraction of conflict of interest in the advocacy. The purpose of this research is a comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation legislation in part of regulation of the institution of a conflict of interest. The relevance of the study is explained by existence of gaps in Russian legislation regarding prohibition of specific actions made by lawyers in the advocacy that create the basis for a conflict of interest between their principals. The results of the work are the following: a conflict of interest is a normal reaction of a lawyer to the presence of obligations to the client that are opposite to obligations to another one. Russian legislation is characterized by the absence of a comprehensive legal regulation of this institution, which creates the necessity to modernize the legislation by establishing clearly formulated prohibitions on providing legal assistance to clients with conflicting interests and the boundaries of such prohibitions.