In December 2013 an annual contest "The Young Lawyer of the Year 2013", which is held by the Coordination Council of Young Lawyers at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, supported by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, and professional associations of lawyers, law offices, lawyers' associations, , young lawyers under the age of 35 years on the best professional achievement in the specialty during the year.
The competition aims to promote training and professional development of young lawyers and prestige of their labor; conscientious execution of young lawyers’ duties, the continuous improvement of the work of initiative and creativity, improving training, retraining and advanced training of lawyers, enhance the participation of young lawyers in research work, the strengthening of respect for the law through the credibility of the legal profession. Law Institute professors participated in this competition. They took premier place in the categories "young lawyer" and "young legal adviser". During the selection of the expert jury of many contenders for the title of "young lawyer", the final reached three winners , including the Ph.D., Associate Professor of Department of Civil Law and Procedure of Law Institute - Roman Tytykalo as the winner in the category "young legalcounsel" become a consultant of legal issues of legal advice "Legal Clinic" - Jana Gorbatyuk. We congratulate the winners and wish them further success and professional achievements!