Federal Chamber of Advocates of Russian Federation

The Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation (Russian: Федеральная палата адвокатов Российской Федерации) is a Russian non-governmental organization which unites regional advocates' chambers (equivalent to regional bar associations) on the basis of mandatory membership.

The Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation is the lawyers' self-regulatory body in Russia, established to carry out a representation of the interests of lawyers in state bodies, local government bodies, a coordination of the activities of regional advocates' chambers, a developing of professional standards of legal practice.

[2] The Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation was founded at the First All-Russian Congress of Advocates on 31 January 2003 and was included into the Russian Unified State Register of legal entities on 17 March 2003.

The advocate's community is a civil society institute which is separated from public and local authorities and is operating independently on the basis of the self-governing.

Also this commission hears appeals against a decisions of councils of regional advocate's chambers on disciplinary cases.