Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

 Ukraine and Poland The article studies current experience of legal service and professional activity of legal adviser at enterprises (institutions or organizations) in Ukraine and Poland. With the rapid development of social relations and globalization processes taking place in all spheres of life, legal advisory activity and the profession of legal adviser has become especially relevant. With the aspiration of Ukraine to join the European Community, all areas of the state’s life need to be improved, which cannot be carried out without the exchange of experience. The article analyzes the Ukrainian and Polish legislation regulating the professional activity of the legal adviser and the work of legal services, on the basis of which the comparison of Ukraine and Poland in this area has been made. The author made a comparative analysis with the application of certain correlation criteria, namely: normative regulation of the legal service, the order of access to the profession of legal adviser, educational and qualification requirements to a legal service official, content of the legal unit activity (service, administration, department, office, sector etc.), scope of legal advisory activity application, tasks and functions of the legal adviser, disciplinary liability of the of the legal service official (grounds and procedure of prosecution, types of fines and penalties, the reasons for dismissal), the system of professional self-government of advisers, deprivation of legal counsel to engage in professional activities. Based on the results of the comparative analysis of the professional activity of legal adviser in Ukraine and Poland, the author has identified the common and distinctive features that characterize the work of legal services in these countries. And finally, the author notes that the identified peculiarities of the work of the legal service at the enterprises (institutions and organizations) in Poland are useful European experience which would be advisable to be taken into account in our state in order to improve legal advisory activity.