Aim. The article is devoted to the identification of difficulties in the practical translation of texts and the analysis of the reasons for translation errors. Methodology. The methods of contrastive analysis and contextual analysis were used in the research based on selected authentic English texts. Results. A generalization, description and classification of translation errors is made, an algorithm for intercultural adaptation of legal texts is proposed. The necessity of carrying out a multidimensional analysis of the cultural characteristics of the country of the studied foreign language and the inclusion of student in the linguistic picture of the world of this language as part of the educational process for further successful professional activity is substantiated. Research Implications. The author develops the theory of the cultural component of meaning, revealed in the lexical-semantic analysis of terminological units in humanitarian fields of knowledge, and analyzes the difficulties of legal terminology interlingual translation. The work studies English legal terms which at first glance seem to be synonyms, ,but upon a more detailed analysis are not.