Digital Transformation of Advocacy Activity in Modern Russia

Abstract

The author analyzes the circumstances that caused these changes, which include the state’s measures to combat coronavirus infection (COVID-19), novelties of procedural legislation on the use of digital technologies in judicial disputes, as well as the practice of applying this legislation. The purpose of the study is to establish the validity and expediency of applying certain legislative measures aimed at digitalization of activities related to the implementation of legal assistance by a lawyer to citizens and legal entities. During the research, the following methods were used: general scientific, such as analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, historical method; private-scientific: formal-legal, comparative-legal, allowing to consider the digitization issues of advocacy activity. The result of the research is to establish the applicable law to relations concerning the conclusion of a foreign economic contract, the grounds and conditions for recognizing the contract as concluded, and the consequences of not recognizing the fact of concluding an international commercial contract.