The article deals with legal regulations which governed the activities of lawyers, their
methods of work, education, wealth, the activities' they did beside their profession, and
the professional associations in which they organised in the period 1918-1941. The
archives in Slovenia keep a lot of records concerned with lawyers, but they are kept in
various files. Thus, the archivists and the users should be well acquainted with their
work, particularly because the lawyers played an important role in public life in all
periods.