Nowadays, legal education has received more and more attention from the society. This article takes legal education and teaching as the research object, and uses a literature survey method to read and analyze a lot of related documents. According to research needs, through the research and summary of the content of the literature, the views, thoughts, methods and relevant opinions on the reform of law teaching have been collected. This article uses a questionnaire survey to conduct a sample survey of 300 students and 28 teachers, and grasp their opinions and suggestions on the reform of law teaching. At the same time, comprehensive reforms have been made to the subject setting, teaching strategy, teaching effect and performance evaluation. The results of the study showed that the satisfaction rate of the students before the reform was 77.03%, which was significantly lower than the 95.76% after the reform (P < 0.05). After the reform, the total reasonable rate of teaching strategies was 99.08% (P < 0.05), and the satisfaction of teaching management before the reform was 73.50%, which was lower than the 97.60% after the reform (P < 0.05). The teaching strategy was obvious, and the teaching subjects were complete. And reasonable teaching content plays a vital role in the reform of the law major of our school, and provides a foundation for the reform of law major.