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"The article intends to consider the genre features of popular legal discourse by analysing professional legal discourse services. Moreover, the article presents intersectioning features of media and popular legal discourse to reveal genre features of popular legal discourse in terms of the simplification of legal texts and the generalisation of the situation for informing citizens in articles and videos. General scientific methods such as synthesis and descriptive and content analyses were used to scrutinise the texts of the discourse to be studied. Moreover, pragmatic discourse analysis was used to distinguish popular legal discourse from legal discourse itself and identify the differences in discursive expressive language units and content. Materials for the analysis and consideration of this topic were popular legal texts from the law websites of law firms and the websites of public organizations. All texts and materials are in the public domain and free of charge for an unlimited number of people. As a result, the genre features of popular legal discourse were presented. Key words: US law firms, video information, legal discourse, media legal discourse, legal advice, and legal service. "

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"The article aims to uncover the phonetic peculiarities of an attorney’s defence speech in the English and Kazakh languages from the perspective of persuasive speech technique. The reason for analysing the phonetical peculiarities of an attorney’s defence speech is that the responsibilities of an attorney comprise the litigation of the client from the beginning to the end of the case; in particular, working with the client, revealing evidence and witnesses; identifying, selecting, and collecting paperwork; talking with the client to formulate the exhibits; clarifying the issue through questions and answers, and the last step is defending in court. These activities require an attorney to be well acquainted with legal literature and the language of the court, which precisely, takes place in the courtroom. Thus, we have collected the fragments of attorney defence speech that took place at the trial from the YouTube channel and analysed the phonetic features using the Praat computer program. The authors demonstrate how phonetic features are realised during cross-questioning moments using excerpts from an attorney’s persuasive speech. These findings shed light on how the persuasive speech of the attorney can create the discursive space and phonological features of the speech to effectively impact the process. "