The article presents research results that demonstrate correlation between life values and social-psychological orientations at various stages of lawyers’ professional socialization (n = 258). Authors of the study used the following methods in the course of their investigation: “Morphological test of life values” by V. F. Sopov and L. V. Karpushina, “Diagnostic technique for social and psychological orientations of a personality in motivational and need-related spheres” by O. F. Potemkina (original questionnaire), and methods of mathematical statistics.