In the article there is described the legal education system in Germany. The aim of this article is to bring this system closer to the students and to the practitioners. The focus was mainly on the description of university education, state exams, applications, grading scale. There is discussed the method of solving the cases and the check of claim verification. The article describes legal professions in Germany and conditions that must be fulfilled in order to practice a given legal profession. Attention was also paid to postgraduate studies LLM at German universities. Legal education should combine the elements of theoretical knowledge with the practical application of acquired knowledge in practice. Legal education in Germany very well combines these two elements. The article was created in connection with a series of lectures for Ukrainian students at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev in Ukraine.