Student teachers need to study the basics and further development of the legal competence as dictated
by the requirements of the teacher’s professional standard. The article deals with the interpretation
of the term “professional and legal competence” and its components: in particular, cognitive-
legal, motivational-legal, social-legal, special-legal, reflexive-legal. Project training provided
the means to form a professional legal competence. It was implemented as a step-by-step complex,
systemic and personality-oriented process. The research demonstrated the correlation between the
components of professional and legal competence in the first year of study. A correlation constellation
of the components of the graduate course was compiled using the data from the students’
implementation of the project activity.