Abstract: The article contains an attempt to introduce the term "professional security" as one of the types of security in human activities. It is stressed that lack of professionalism or anti-social views and positions of lawyers may be harmful to people, society and states, and the author discusses the possible ways to avoid it.  According to the official data and the opinions of people most of the lawyers perform their professional duties at a high professional level, possess formidable moral quality and their authority is recognized by the people. The professional and moral qualities necessary for a lawyer can be gained in the process of studies and education of students in the higher professional education institutions.  The conclusion is made that legal education should be profoundly modernized, and the negative elements serving as obstacles in its improvement should be eliminated.  All of the practically tested forms and methods of teaching and education should be used to a full extent in order to improve professionalism of lawyers and improve the quality of their professional activities as one of the means of support of rule of law in the state and its regions.