Today, there are such realities that the amount of daily information a person faces with at the beginning of the 21st century is significantly larger than the appropriate one in the 20th century. However, in today’s world, there are a number of professions where the amount of daily information is significantly larger than that experienced by an average citizen. Such professions include law practitioners, and if an experienced lawyer has the necessary adaptive capacity and well-developed skills to evaluate information critically, then a lawyer who has just received a diploma does not have the proper level of such skills. It is natural that it makes certain tasks for the system of provision of educational services and persons receiving the profession of a lawyer.

The aim was to present a question as an important skill and, at the same time, a valuable tool for critical thinking of persons planning to work in the field of jurisprudence in future.

Results of the research. Critical thinking is essentially a reaction process. A person thinks not for the sake of a thinking process, but for the sake of getting the information to think about. It is possible solely through “questions-answers” in collaboration with the others. Therefore, the most important skill for critical thinking is the ability to ask questions and answer them. It is a skill that is at the same time a critical thinking tool because it satisfies a person’s need in quality of the received information and evidences that support or refuse the received information.

It is concluded that critical thinking is always an unfinished project, because new and new questions constantly raise. Every person almost constantly faces the need either to ask or to answer questions. A lawyer should do this not only in the context of his personal life, but perhaps even more so in his professional life. Question is an indicator of the ability to evaluate reality and is at the same time a tool for developing critical thinking.

Key words: information, questions, critical thinking, professional thinking, lawyer.

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