The object of consideration in this article is the peculiarities of functioning of texts in the state language of the Russian Federation in their official-legal variety in legal-linguistic coverage, the subject is the conflict potential of these texts created on the basis of the official style of the modern Russian language. The purpose of the study is to identify and typologize, based on the generalization of data from linguo-expert practice, the most conflict-provoking genres of official communication, the reasons for the communicative failures of developers of legislative and creators of administrative texts, the conflict potential of which, laid down at the development stage, becomes an obstacle to their effective functioning in society, as well as ways to minimize them in real law enforcement practice. The material of the study is more than 20 controversial texts of the official sphere of different levels that have undergone the procedure of linguistic research in non-governmental expert organizations of Altai Krai. The text material was analyzed based on a comprehensive linguistic analysis, including the method of semantic and structural-logical analysis of the statement, techniques for interpreting the meaning and construal of the meanings of the elements of the statement, as well as the method of linguistic analysis that helps to determine the contextual meaning of language units used in the statement, their lexical-semantic, grammatical and syntactic properties and functions. Reference to the regional and national Russian practice of linguistic research of legislative and administrative-managerial texts, as well as reviews of judicial practice on issues arising during the consideration of cases related to the interpretation of a controversial fragment of the text of a legislative act, made it possible to identify genre varieties of documents that have realized conflict potential during their application (85% ‒ texts of administrative genres, 5% ‒ legislative; 10% ‒ "semi-official" texts created by private individuals and lacking official status).), and to determine the reasons that reduce the effectiveness of legislative texts. Among the most pressing is the failure of developers to focus on the addressee, ignoring the ambiguity of possible interpretation of bulky constructions of legislative texts, admissible alternatives for securing the norm of the law in the process of its implementation, which leads to interpreting the document in everyday practice.