In Uzbekistan, advanced training and retraining of personnel is an independent stage of the continuous education system.   In this field, the Training Institute for  Lawyers under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan has an important role.

After Uzbekistan gained state independence, the need for legal personnel increased further, and the requirements for modern legal personnel also changed. In the first years of independence, there was a need for specialists capable of ensuring the legal aspects of such complex processes as building a democratic legal state based on a market economy and building a free civil society.

Therefore, by the Resolution №18 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 19, 1994, "On issues of organizing the activities of Justice bodies and Courts of the Republic of Uzbekistan," the Institute for Advanced Training of Judicial and Justice bodies was established on the basis of republican courses for advanced training of justice personnel. In order to meet the needs of state authorities and law enforcement agencies for highly qualified personnel, radically improve the professional training and retraining of legal personnel based on modern knowledge, as well as improve the level of scientific research in the field of jurisprudence, the Center for Advanced Training of Lawyers under the Ministry of Justice was established by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated july 21, 1997, № 364, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated june 25, 1997, № DP-1791 "On improving legal education, raising the level of legal culture of the population, improving the system of training legal personnel, improving the work on studying public opinion."

In order to ensure the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated may 24, 2024 № DP-80 "On further increasing the responsibility of justice bodies and institutions and forming a compact management system within the framework of administrative reforms" as well as to establish a modern system of continuous professional development of employees of justice bodies and institutions, legal services, advocacy, notary services, mediation, intellectual property, forensic examination, archival affairs and record keeping, and specialists in other areas, and to improve their training based on international experience and the requirements of modern educational standards, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted resolution № 171 dated march 19, 2025. Also, by this resolution, the Center was reorganized into the Training Institute for lawyers.

According to it, the main tasks of the Institute are defined as:

retraining and advanced training of employees of justice bodies and institutions, specialists in the field of legal services, advocacy, notary, forensic examination, archival affairs and record keeping, executive discipline, work with appeals, mediation and intellectual property, taking into account modern requirements and processes;

providing customers with the opportunity to independently choose forms of professional development based on professional needs;

implementation and improvement of forms of vocational training (dual education), implemented in conjunction with the work process;

professional training of legal personnel in accordance with international standards, capable of adequately representing the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the international level;

retraining of persons with higher education in the legal specialty;

retraining of pedagogical personnel with higher non-legal education, teaching legal disciplines in general secondary, secondary specialized, and vocational educational institutions, as well as advanced training of pedagogical personnel teaching legal disciplines in the system of vocational and higher education in accordance with the established frequency;

organization of training courses aimed at improving the legal knowledge of civil servants, representatives of the private sector and civil society institutions working in the legal and non-legal spheres;

Targeted training of relevant specialists of organizations on a contractual basis, based on demand and needs, with a legal analysis of the internal documents of organizations, record keeping procedures, contractual relations, as well as the professional knowledge and skills of employees;

creation of digital educational resources for professional development, continuous development and periodic assessment of theoretical knowledge and practical skills of personnel;

increasing the potential of personnel using the credit-modular system, organizing training in legal education based on case studies and case technologies;

development of scientifically substantiated proposals for the further improvement of the activities of justice bodies and institutions, the provision of legal services, scientific, methodological, and consulting support in the field of forensic examination, archival work, and record keeping, as well as analysis of the directions of their activities;

implementation of fundamental, applied, and innovative research projects on problems of law enforcement and the most pressing issues of jurisprudence, including with the involvement of national, foreign, and international grants;

wide involvement of highly qualified domestic and foreign specialists in the process of retraining and advanced training, as well as in scientific activities, establishment and development of international cooperation in the field of exchanging best practices in the field of pedagogy.