Possible types of the conflicts of interest in advocacy and criteria for their classification

This article reveals problematic issues related to the study of both the essence of the conflict of interests in the aspect of practicing law, and in particular, the identification of possible types of such conflicts and the criteria for their classification. This article is primarily devoted to the study of various positions of scientists regarding the identification of possible types of such conflicts. 
The position is argued, according to which the most common cases of conflict of interests in the professional activity of a lawyer are the representation of two clients whose interests are conflicting. At the same time, one of the most difficult in terms of determining the essence of this kind of conflict is the relationship between a lawyer and a client - a legal entity. First of all, VKDKA significantly expands the understanding of conflicts of interest in advocacy and law enforcement practice. 
Within the framework of this study, the positions of domestic and foreign scientists regarding the allocation of various criteria for the classification of conflicts of interest in the professional activity of a lawyer were disclosed. The study focused on the fact that a significant number of potentially possible conflicts of interest in the professional activity of a lawyer led to the existence of various criteria for their classification (that is: in the legal literature, in particular, the following are distinguished: overt and hidden; real and imaginary; primary and indirect, as well as vertical, horizontal and mixed). 
In this article, general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are widely used. To achieve the goal stipulated by the author, the methods characteristic of legal science was also applied. The research itself was carried out using, first of all, a formal-dogmatic method, which made it possible to distinguish the types and analyze the criteria for the classification of possible conflicts of interest in the professional activity of a lawyer.