Аннотация
"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. "