This article is devoted to a topic, which is relevant due to the need to create an effective educational environment for gifted students through the use of modern methodological tools within the framework of education digitalization. Study purpose: to identify the state and prospects for the development of pedagogical competencies of future law teachers on the development and use of modern methodological tools in organizing work with gifted students. Research objectives: to determine the main definitions on the research topic to identify the role and place of modern methodological tools in the activities of teachers and students, to evaluate the effectiveness of its application during legal education; to develop and conduct a distance survey among the 1st-5th year students and the 1st year undergraduates of the institutes of the Kazan (Volga) Federal University, as well as gifted students from the specialized educational organizations based on the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, the regulatory framework. The authors also describe the pedagogical capabilities of the main digital educational platforms of web services used by law teachers in the practice of working with gifted students.