For the time being, professional education of law offered by institutes of technology has become an important component of cultivation of professional talents in law in China. Only if institutes of technology face up with their disadvantages, make full use of their resource advantages and cultivate characteristic talents in law, are they able to remain invincible in the fierce competition among universities. This paper analyzes predicament and advantages existing in cultivation of characteristic talents in law by institutes of technology. On that basis, the paper then puts forward the basic principles and specific approaches to be followed by institutes of technology to cultivate characteristic talents in law.