By the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia the law practice is defined as independent autonomous service. As such it belongs to regulated free profession which is defined by special regulations. This paper aims to consider the development of law practice history and to analyze in particular the current situation in Croatian law profession. The paper will also answer the question whether lawyers are subject to the rules of market competition by analyzing correlation of fundamental economic freedoms (stipulated by the Treaty of the functioning of the European Union) and law practice. In the final part the authors will outline some of the guidelines that the European Commission and its General Directorate for Competition are trying to address which also appeared in the Government of the Republic of Croatia Action Plan (exempli causa, abolition of minimum fixed tariffs and abolition of advertising and marketing bans). The complexity of the subject matter of the research and the set of tasks conditioned choice method, so the methodological approach used in the research includes the study of domestic and foreign literature, relevant legal regulations, as well as analysis of court practice. The European Union Court practice will be analyzed because it is based on the assumption that knowledge of this can be be the key to understanding this paper`s issues.