MCLE Information

Posted by MCLE on 8/19/06

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Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) refers to the
approved continuing legal education required of California
attorneys. Every three (3) years, attorney's must complete
twenty-five (25) hours of continuing legal education.

The regular "25 hour" requirement includes at last four
hours of legal ethics, at least one hour of prevention,
detection and treatment of substance abuse and emotional
distress and at least one hour of elimination of bias in
the legal profession based on any of, but not limited to,
the following characteristics: sex, color, race,
religion, ancestry, national origin, blindness or other
physical disability, age, and sexual orientation.

In addition to the above, members of the California State
Bar must comply with the following additional rules (as
per the guidelines found on the California State Bar's
MCLE Program website:

Maximum "self-study" hours: 12.5 hours
Members must fulfill at least one-half of their MCLE
requirement with activities approved for "participatory"
MCLE credit.
Special Requirements within the total hours required (may
be taken as participatory or self-study):
Legal Ethics: 4 hours (required)
Detection/Prevention of Substance Abuse: 1 hour (required)
Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession: 1 hour
(required)

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