The article deals with the problem of holding lawyers responsible for their professional duties. Today's reality is such that this question is not fully studied by the scientific community, and therefore there is no unified approach regarding the essence of the responsibility of a lawyer, where the specifics, peculiarities, and reasons for holding lawyers responsible for the performance of their professional duties are not taken into account. Necessity of consideration of this problem is caused by the practice of increasing cases of attorneys' involvement in various types of liability in the exercise of their professional powers. Along with this, the authors note that the existing model of holding lawyers accountable, from the point of view of the legislation, does not have a strictly regulated nature, which requires amendments to the current legislation.