Total CLE Requirement: Every active lawyer is required to complete twenty-four credit hours of continuing legal education every two years. Of those twenty-four credits, at least four credits must be in ethics and/or professionalism. In addition to that general requirement, a newly admitted lawyer must obtain fifteen credit hours in any five of the following nine subject areas during the newly admitted lawyer’s first full two-year compliance period: New Jersey basic estate administration; New Jersey basic estate planning; New Jersey civil or criminal trial preparation; New Jersey family law practice; New Jersey real estate closing procedures; New Jersey trust and business accounting; New Jersey landlord/tenant practice; New Jersey municipal court practice; and New Jersey law office management. New Jersey attorneys are permitted to take up to one-half of their continuing legal education credit hours in a compliance period through courses offered in alternative verifiable learning formats.
The chart below may assist you in determining your continuing legal education requirement for your first two compliance reporting periods based on your date of admission to the NJ bar and your compliance group.
| Compliance Group 1 (birthdays from January 1 through June 30) | |||
| Year Admitted | Requirement Begins | First Compliance Reporting Period | Second Compliance Reporting Period |
| 2010 | 1-Jan-11 | 12 credits by 12/31/11 - Transitional Reporting Period | 24 credits by 12/31/13 - Must complete a new admit requirement |
| 2011 | 1-Jan-12 | 24 credits by 12/31/13 - Must complete a new admit requirement | 24 credits by 12/31/15 |
| 2012 | 1-Jan-13 | 12 credits by 12/31/13 - Transitional Reporting Period | 24 credits by 12/31/15 - Must complete a new admit requirement |
| 2013 | 1-Jan-14 | 24 credits by 12/31/15 - Must complete a new admit requirement | 24 credits by 12/31/17 |
| 2014 | 1-Jan-15 | 12 credits by 12/31/15 - Transitional Reporting Period | 24 credits by 12/31/17 -Must compete new admit requirement |
| Compliance Group 2 (birthdays from July 1 through December 31) | |||
| Year Admitted | Requirement Begins | First Compliance Reporting Period | Second Compliance Reporting Period |
| 2010 | 1-Jan-11 | 24 credits by 12/31/12 - Must complete a new admit requirement | 24 credits by 12/31/14 |
| 2011 | 1-Jan-12 | 12 credits by 12/31/12 - Transitional Reporting Period | 24 credits by 12/31/14 - Must complete a new admit requirement |
| 2012 | 1-Jan-13 | 24 credits by 12/31/14 - Must complete a new admit requirement | 24 credits by 12/31/16 |
| 2013 | 1-Jan-14 | 12 credits by 12/31/14 - Transitional Reporting Period | 24 credits by 12/31/16 -Must compete new admit requirement |
| 2014 | 1-Jan-15 | 24 credits by 12/31/16 - Must complete a new admit requirement | 24 credits by 12/31/18 |
“Transitional reporting period” means that you have a one-year period to obtain 12 credits. At least two of the credits must be in ethics and/or professionalism and the balance of credits in any legal, judicial, or other educational activity accredited by the Board. No more than 6 of the 12 credits can be earned from alternative verifiable learning format courses.
“Must complete new admit requirement” means that during this 2-year reporting period you must obtain 24 credits. Of those 24 credits, at least four credits in must be in ethics and/or professionalism, 15 credits in any five of the nine New Jersey subject areas, and the balance of credits in any legal, judicial, or other educational activity accredited by the Board. No more than 12 of the 24 credits can be earned from alternative verifiable learning format courses.
CLE Deadline: December 31.
Reporting Date: New Jersey is a self reporting jurisdiction.
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information: Each active attorney is permanently assigned to one of two compliance groups, with one group reporting each year:
Compliance Group 1: Those whose birthdays are during the period from January 1 through June 30 must certify their compliance on the Annual Attorney Registration Statement (or on such other form as provided by the Board) of each even numbered year next following the completion of a compliance period.
Compliance Group 2: Those whose birthdays are during the period from July 1 to December 31 must certify their compliance on the Annual Attorney Registration Statement (or on such other form as provided by the Board) of each odd numbered year next following the completion of a compliance period.
State Contact Info:
Supreme Court of New Jersey Board of Continuing Legal Education
PO Box 970
Trenton, NJ 08625
(t): (609) 633-9733
Email: sctle.mailbox@judiciary.state.nj.us
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/cle/index.htm
Total CLE Requirement: Every active lawyer is required to complete twenty-four credit hours of continuing legal education every two years. Of those twenty-four credits, at least four credits must be in ethics and/or professionalism. New Jersey attorneys are permitted to take up to one-half of their continuing legal education credit hours in a compliance period through courses offered in alternative verifiable learning formats.
CLE Deadline: December 31.
Reporting Date: New Jersey is a self reporting jurisdiction.
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information: Each active attorney is permanently assigned to one of two compliance groups, with one group reporting each year:
Compliance Group 1: Those whose birthdays are during the period from January 1 through June 30 must certify their compliance on the Annual Attorney Registration Statement (or on such other form as provided by the Board) of each even numbered year next following the completion of a compliance period.
Compliance Group 2: Those whose birthdays are during the period from July 1 to December 31 must certify their compliance on the Annual Attorney Registration Statement (or on such other form as provided by the Board) of each odd numbered year next following the completion of a compliance period.
State Contact Info:
Supreme Court of New Jersey Board of Continuing Legal Education
PO Box 970
Trenton, NJ 08625
(t): (609) 633-9733
Email: sctle.mailbox@judiciary.state.nj.us
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/cle/index.htm
Total CLE Requirement: 16 transitional credits must be completed in each of your first two years of admission. Of the 16 required credits, 3 must be in Ethics, 6 must be in Skills, and 7 must be in Professional Practice or Practice Management. Newly admitted attorneys shall fulfill their continuing legal education requirement by taking accredited transitional continuing legal education courses or programs in traditional live classroom settings or through attendance of fully interactive video conferences if the videoconference technology has been separately approved by the CLE Board for use by newly admitted attorneys.
CLE Deadline: Measured from the date of your admission.
Reporting Date: New York is a self reporting jurisdiction.
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information:
Each newly admitted attorney subject to New York's transitional continuing legal education requirements is required to certify along with the submission of his or her biennial attorney registration statement that the attorney has satisfactorily completed 32 credit hours of transitional continuing legal education (16 credit hours in the first year of admission to the Bar, 16 credit hours in the second year of admission to the Bar) and that the attorney has retained the Certificates of Attendance or other documentation required by the CLE Board for the accredited courses or programs. Please note, application for New York accreditation of the Bridge the Gap Day 1 + 2 program is currently pending.
State Contact Info:
NYS CLE Board
25 Beaver Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10004
(t) 212-428-2105 / (f) 212-428-2188
http://www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/1500.shtml
Total CLE Requirement: Each attorney shall complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of accredited continuing legal education each biennial reporting cycle, at least four (4) credit hours of which shall be in ethics and professionalism. Ethics and professionalism, skills, law practice management and areas of professional practice are defined in 1500.2. The ethics and professionalism components may be intertwined with other courses.
CLE Deadline: Every two years on your birthday.
Reporting Date: New York is a self reporting jurisdiction.
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information:
As a self reporting jurisdiction, New York requires that on your biennial attorney registration form you verify that you have completed your continuing education requirement. You are required to retain all certificates from any continuing education classes you have for at least the past 4 years.
State Contact Info:
NYS CLE Board
25 Beaver Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10004
(t) 212-428-2105 / (f) 212-428-2188
http://www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/1500.shtml
Total CLE Requirement: In May of 2002 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania passed a rule requiring newly admitted lawyers to complete the Bridge the Gap program as a condition of compliance prior to the first CLE deadline on which CLE credits are due. In order to meet your first PA CLE compliance requirement, 4 hours of Bridge the Gap programs are required. If your admission date is May 2002 and forward, you are required to complete the Bridge the Gap program.
CLE Deadline: All Pennsylvania lawyers have been permanently assigned to one of three (3) Compliance Groups chosen randomly, by lawyer ID number:
Group I - May 1 through April 30 every year
Group II - September 1 through August 31 every year
Group III - January 1 through December 31 every year
Reporting Date: Dependent upon your Group assignment
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information:
The Board shall maintain current records of CLE attendance for each lawyer to whom the rules and these regulations apply. These records shall be made available as the Board shall determine.
PACLE will notify each lawyer of his or her CLE status prior to the final day of the compliance period to which the lawyer has been assigned and will provide a final compliance notice after the end of the compliance period. The CLE requirement must be completed by the final day of the compliance period to which the lawyer has been assigned. The final compliance notice shall include the hours earned during the compliance period which have been reported by providers.
State Contact Info:
PA Continuing Legal Education Board
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 500
PO Box 869
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Phone: (717) 795-2139
Phone: (800) 497-2253
Fax: (717)795-2120
www.pacle.org
Total CLE Requirement: The CLE requirement shall be a minimum of one (1) hour of ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse and a minimum of eleven (11) hours of substantive law, practice and procedure for a total of twelve (12) credit hours.
Of the twelve (12) mandatory hours, at least eight (8) of those must be earned through the live lecture format.
CLE Deadline: All Pennsylvania lawyers have been permanently assigned to one of three (3) Compliance Groups chosen randomly, by lawyer ID number:
Group I - May 1 through April 30 every year
Group II - September 1 through August 31 every year
Group III - January 1 through December 31 every year
Reporting Date: Dependent upon your Group assignment
Reporting Date Rule: N/A
Reporting Information:
The Board shall maintain current records of CLE attendance for each lawyer to whom the rules and these regulations apply. These records shall be made available as the Board shall determine.
PACLE will notify each lawyer of his or her CLE status prior to the final day of the compliance period to which the lawyer has been assigned and will provide a final compliance notice after the end of the compliance period. The CLE requirement must be completed by the final day of the compliance period to which the lawyer has been assigned. The final compliance notice shall include the hours earned during the compliance period which have been reported by providers.
State Contact Info:
PA Continuing Legal Education Board
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 500
PO Box 869
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Phone: (717) 795-2139
Phone: (800) 497-2253
Fax: (717)795-2120
www.pacle.org
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