The article examines legal thinking as a core professional quality of a lawyer within the competency-based model of legal education and the requirements of the federal state educational standards. It highlights the role of theoretical legal disciplines and practice-oriented teaching formats in developing the skills of legal qualification of facts, legal reasoning, and the adoption of legally significant decisions. The study addresses the relationship between legal thinking, legal consciousness, and professional legal culture, emphasizing the importance of a coherent conceptual framework and logical rigor in legal argumentation. It further substantiates the need to combine doctrinal training with systematic engagement in case studies, judicial practice, and written legal opinions. Special attention is paid to the impact of the contemporary information environment on learning outcomes and to the risks of replacing legal judgment with technical retrieval of legal materials; therefore, the article stresses the significance of critical source assessment, procedural good faith, and the verification of decisions against the criteria of legality and reasoning.
Sergey Nikolaevich Khrameshin (2017) studied this question.
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