On 24 December 1918, the Naczelnik Państwa – Chief of State issued the first Polish law regulating the advocacy system in Poland. This law entered into force on January 1, 1919. Until that day, regulations on the advocacy of the partitioning states: Austria, Germany and Russia were in force in the lands of the Polish State. The complete unification of the advocacy system did not take place until 1932. The President’s decree issued at that time was binding throughout Poland. Another legal act on advocacy was the Sejm Law of 1938. Polish legal acts on advocacy guaranteed its freedom and self-governance, while individual advocates were guaranteed her independence, freedom of speech and immunity. This situation changed completely after the communists seized power in Poland in 1945. The new government abolished the freedom and self-governance of the advocacy in Poland. The Minister of Justice of the communist government became the actual administrator of the advocacy. This state of affairs lasted until 1990.