The proposed training manual outlines the theoretical and practical issues of the Rhetoric training discipline . It reveals the categories and laws of rhetoric; discusses the main stages of the rhetorical canon; discusses the rhetorical aspects of public speaking and polemical mastery. Particular attention is paid to the development of the speaker and the formation of the necessary speaking skills; the communicative side of the judicial debate, the characteristics of the prosecutor's indictment speech and the defense speech of the lawyer . Each section of the manual contains questions for students .