From the Association of Czech Advocates in the Czech Kingdom to the Union of the Czechoslovak advocates in the years Prague in 1918-1938

The article deals with the history of the oldest association of the Czech advocates in the period of the first Czechoslovak republic. This association has been created in the end of the 19th century, its first members were the advocates of the Czech nationality in the Austrian-ungarian monarchy. The association changed the name in the period 1918–1938 to Union of the Czechoslovak advocates in Prague. It was the leading group of the advocacy in the independent Czechoslovak state, publishing the revue Česká advokacie (Czech Advocacy) and guarding the core values of the legal profession. Its members were active in bar associations, in civil society and in the democratic organs of the Czechoslovak republic