The scientific article describes current issues of legal education in the field of law, its role and its objectives in the system of providing free legal aid in Ukraine. This article characterizes the main legal education requirements for the subjects of management of the system of providing free legal aid. We have analyzed legal acts that regulate certain issues of management of the system of providing free legal aid, such as the Law of Ukraine “On Free Legal Aid”, the Provision on Free Secondary Legal Aid Centres, the Provision on Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision, and the Model Regulation on the Legal Aid Office, which made it possible to identify such subjects of legal education in the system of management of free legal aid, such as the regional and local Legal Aid Centres, the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision, and the Legal Aid Office. The article emphasizes that legal clinics, which are structural divisions of higher educational institutions, are also involved in legal education activity. We highlight that the subjects of management in the free legal aid system carry out legal education at all levels of managerial influence. The article emphasizes that the role of forms of cooperation such as the conclusion of memorandums and agreements between the subjects of management of the system of providing free legal aid and other institutions and organizations in the system of providing free legal aid has been increasing recently. In addition, we paid special attention to the importance of the functioning of legal clubs “PRAVOKATOR”, which play an important role in the professional training and development of the staff of the free legal aid system, as well as the functioning of the Distance Learning Platform on the basis of such clubs.Furthermore, the article describes the features of the functioning of the information platform for legal consultations “WikiLegalAid”, which was created to improve the quality, completeness and efficiency of legal consultations by employees of regional and local centres as well as the exchange of experience.We have also analyzed its role in the legal education activity of the subjects of management of the system of free legal aid.