This study focuses on the impact of the war conditions on the attitudes and standing of lawyers, in particular on the Czech lawyers in Moravia. The freedom of advocacy achieved in 1868 was limited by the war conditions and a significant part of the lawyers who were actively working before 1914, were put under surveillance. Some of them were persecuted, some conscripted and they were forced to fight on the side of the monarchy or they fought in the czechoslovakian legions. Part of the lawyers partake in the defense of the people accused of the offense against the state at the end of the war and also in the smooth assumption of power by the new authorities of the Czechoslovakian state.