CLE
Accreditation will be sought in those jurisdictions requested by the registrants which have continuing education requirements. This course is identified as nontransitional for the purposes of CLE accreditation.
ACI certifies that the activity has been approved for CLE credit by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board.
ACI certifies that this activity has been approved for CLE credit by the State Bar of California.
You are required to bring your state bar number to complete the appropriate state forms during the conference. CLE credits are processed in 4-8 weeks after a conference is held.
ACI has a dedicated team which processes requests for state approval. Please note that event accreditation varies by state and ACI will make every effort to process your request.
A Note About MCLE Credit
The content on this page is for informational and educational purposes only. Each state has its own rules and regulations indicating what qualifies for CLE credit. Certain programs, subjects, and formats may not receive credit in some states and there may be specific rules regarding who may earn credit or the maximum number of credit hours that may be earned with specific formats. Please contact your state MCLE regulatory entity for specific questions about your MCLE rules.
CLE Categories
Ethics and Professionalism may include, among other things, the following: the norms relating to lawyers’ professional obligations to clients (including the obligation to provide legal assistance to those in need, confidentiality, competence, conflicts of interest, the allocation of decision making, and zealous advocacy and its limits); the norms relating to lawyers’ professional relations with prospective clients, courts and other legal institutions, and third parties (including the lawyers’ fiduciary, accounting and record-keeping obligations when entrusted with law client and escrow monies, as well as the norms relating to civility); the sources of lawyers’ professional obligations (including disciplinary rules, judicial decisions, and relevant constitutional and statutory provisions); recognition and resolution of ethical dilemmas; the mechanisms for enforcing professional norms; substance abuse control; and professional values (including professional development, improving the profession, and the promotion of fairness, justice and morality).
Skills must relate to the practice of law and may include, among other things, problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research and writing, drafting documents, factual investigation (as taught in courses on areas of professional practice), communication, counseling, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, organization and trial advocacy.
Law Practice Management must relate to the practice of law and may encompass, among other things, office management, applications of technology, state and federal court procedures, stress management, management of legal work and avoiding malpractice and litigation.
Areas of Professional Practice may include, among other things, corporations, wills/trusts, elder law, estate planning/administration, real estate, commercial law, civil litigation, criminal litigation, family law, labor and employment law, administrative law, securities, tort/insurance practice, bankruptcy, taxation, compensation, intellectual property, municipal law, landlord/tenant, environmental law, entertainment law, international law, social security and other government benefits, and alternative dispute resolution procedures.
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Alabama (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per reporting period, 1 hour. of which shall be either ethics or professionalism.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: January 31
www.alabar.org/cle
Alaska (60min)
Credit hours required: 3 hours of MCLE ethics per reporting period. An additional 9 hours of general voluntary CLE (VCLE)
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: February
www.alaskabar.org
Arizona (60min)
Credit hours required: 15 credit hours per calendar year including 3 hours. ethics/professional responsibility.
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: September 15
www.myazbar.org
Arkansas (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 credit hours per calendar year including 3 hours ethics
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: August 31
http://courts.state.ar.us/opp/continue_legal.cfm
British Columbia (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per reporting year including 2 hours of professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, or practice management
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: December 31
www.lawsociety.bc.ca
California (60min)
Credit hours required: 25 hours over 3-year period including 4 hours of legal ethics, 1 hour of substance abuse or mental illness that impairs professional competence; and 1 hour of elimination of bias in the profession
Compliance date: January 31
Reporting date: February 1.
http://mcle.calbar.ca.gov/
Colorado (60min)
Credit hours required: 45 hours over 3-year period including 7 hours of legal ethics.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: January 31
www.coloradosupremecourt.com
Connecticut (60min)
Connecticut does not have an MCLE requirement at this time.
Delaware (60min)
Credit hours required: 24 hours over a 2-year period including 4 hours enhanced ethics, Five-program series of courses on Fundamentals of Law for newly admitted attorneys within 4 years of admission
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: March 31
www.courts.delaware.gov/cle
Washington D.C. (60min)
The District of Columbia does not have an MCLE requirement at this time.
https://www.dcbar.org/cle/
Florida (50min)
Credit hours required: 30 hours per 3-year period including 5 hours ethics, professionalism, substance abuse, or mental illness awareness.
Compliance date: Assigned by Florida
Reporting date: Assigned by Florida
www.floridabar.org/cler
Georgia (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year including 1 hour of ethics & 1 hour of professionalism; 3 hours in trial practice for trial attorneys only
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: March 31
www.gabar.org
Hawaii (60min)
Credit hours required: 3 hours per 3-year period including 1 hour in the area of ethics or professional responsibility education; the Rules of Professional Conduct; the professional obligations of the lawyer to the client, the judicial system, the public and other lawyers; substance abuse and its effects on lawyers and the practice of law; client trust administration; bias awareness and prevention; and access to justice.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: December 31
www.hsba.org
Idaho (60min)
Credit hours required: 30 hours per 3-year period including 2 hours ethics/professionalism. Attorneys who are certified as a specialist must obtain 30 Idaho approved MCLE credits in their specialty area during each reporting period. Within twelve months of admission to the Idaho State Bar, each lawyer, regardless of status, is required to complete a practical skills seminar.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: February 1
http://www.isb.idaho.gov/licensing/mcle/mcle_requirements.html
Illinois (60min)
Credit hours required: 30 hours every 2 years including 6 hours of training in professionalism, diversity, mental illness and addiction, civility, or legal ethics during each two-year period.”
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: July 31
http://www.mcleboard.org/
Indiana (60min)
Credit hours required: 36 hours per 3-year period with 6-hour minimum per year including 3 hours ethics.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: December 31
www.in.gov/judiciary/cle
Iowa (60min)
Credit hours required: 15 hours per calendar year including 3 hours of ethics every 2 years ending on the odd-numbered year. Iowa amended its rules in February 2012 to expand the definition of ethics to include instruction specifically designed for lawyers regarding substance abuse and mental health and increased the biennial ethics requirement from 2 to 3 hours. The 3-hour requirement is effective for the 2013 ethics reporting period, with attorneys reporting by March 1, 2014.
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: March 31
www.iowacourts.gov/Professional_Regulation/Attorney_RegulationCommissions/CLE/
Kansas (50min)
Credit hours required: 12 credit hours per year including 2 hours ethics
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: August 31
www.kscle.org
Kentucky (60min)
Credit hours required: 12.5 hours per year including 2 hours. legal ethics, professional responsibility and professionalism
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: August 10
www.kybar.org
Louisiana (60min)
Credit hours required: 12.5 hours per year including 1 hour legal ethics and 1 hour professionalism
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: January 31
www.lascmcle.org
Maine (60min)
Credit hours required: 11 hours per year including 1 hour of ethics or professional responsibility
Compliance date: August 31
Reporting date: August 31
www.mebaroverseers.org
Maryland (60min)
Maryland does not have an MCLE requirement at this time.
Massachusetts (60min)
Massachusetts does not have an MCLE requirement at this time.
Michigan (60min)
Michigan does not have an MCLE requirement at this time.
Minnesota (60min)
Credit hours required: 45 hours per 3-year period including 3 of ethics and 2 hours of elimination of bias
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: August 31
www.mbcle.state.mn.us
Mississippi (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year including 1 hour of legal ethics, professional responsibility, professionalism, malpractice prevention, substance abuse or mental health
Compliance date: July 31
Reporting date: August 15
www.mssc.state.ms.us/cle_bccr/cle_bccr.html
Missouri (50min)
Credit hours required: 15 hours per year including 2 hours of ethics, professionalism, or malpractice prevention
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: July 31
www.mobar.org
Montana (60min)
Credit hours required: 15 hours per year including 5 hours of ethics, with 1 of those 5 hours on substance abuse/mental impairment (SAMI requirement) every 3 years.
Compliance date: March 31
Reporting date: May 15
www.montanabar.org
Nebraska (60min)
Credit hours required: 10 hours per year including 2 hours of professional responsibility
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: December 31
www.mcle.ne.gov
Nevada (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours. per year of which 2 hours ethics and 2 hours of professionalism
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: March 1
www.nvbar.org/cle/cle.htm
New Hampshire (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year/at least 6 must come from out of the office live programs, including 2 hours legal ethics/professionalism, or substance abuse, prevention of malpractice, or attorney-client relations
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: June 30
www.nhbar.org/NHMCLE
New Jersey (50min)
Credit hours required: 24 hours 2-year period including 4 hours in ethics and/or professionalism
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: March 31
www.judiciary.state.nj.us/cle/
New Mexico (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year including 2 hours of ethics or professionalism
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: December 31
www.nmmcle.org
New York (50min)
Credit hours required: 24 hours per 2-year period including 4 hours of ethics/professionalism. Newly admitted attorneys are required to take 16 hours of transitional credit in each of the first two years (3 hours of ethics, 6 hours of skills, and 7 hours of law practice management or areas of professional practice each year).
Compliance date: 30 days after birthday in alternate years.
Reporting date: 30 days after birthday in alternate years.
www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle
North Carolina (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year including 2 ethics and/or professionalism, with 1 additional hour on substance abuse awareness or debilitating mental conditions every 3 years
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: February 28
www.nccle.org
North Dakota (60min)
Credit hours required: 45 hours per 3-year period including 3 hours of ethics. A maximum of 15 credit hours may be self study.
Compliance date: June 30
Reporting date: July 1
www.sband.org
Ohio (60min)
Credit hours required: 24 hours per 2 years including 2.5 hours on professional conduct, consisting of 1 hour of legal ethics, 1 hour of professionalism, and .5 hours of substance abuse education
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: January 31
www.supremecourt.ohio.gov
Oklahoma (50min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year including 1 hour of legal ethics
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: February 15
www.okbar.org
Oregon (60min)
Credit hours required: 45 hours 3-year reporting period including 5 hours of ethics or professionalism and 1 hour on lawyers’ statutory duty to report child abuse. In alternate reporting periods, at least 3 additional hours must be in programs accredited for access to justice (elimination of bias) under Rule 5.5(b).
Compliance date: December 31
Reporting date: January 31
www.osbar.org/mcle
Pennsylvania (60min)
Credit hours required: 12 hours per year for including 1 hour ethics for 2014 compliance deadlines; 2 hours ethics beginning with 2015 compliance deadlines
Compliance date:

- 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
CLE Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What is CLE? A: Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as MCLE (mandatory or minimum continuing legal education), is the professional education of lawyers that takes place after their initial admission to the bar. In many states in the United States, CLE participation is required of attorneys to maintain their license to practice law. CLE requirements exist in many other jurisdictions, such as in British Columbia and Canada. Some jurisdictions, such as the District of Columbia recommend but do not require lawyers to participate in CLE. Accreditation is given on a state by state basis and approval of a course is ultimately decided by the state bar. Each state has different requirements and go by a 60 of a 50 minute hour. Q. I’ve attended a program but did not take a Certificate of Completion. How do I obtain one? A. Please submit your email request with the following information to ACI-CLE@Americanconference.com- Name
- Title of Program
- Date of program
- State where Credit is to be applied
- Bar number
- A sponsor may apply for approval for the individual program.
- A sponsor may apply for sponsor accreditation or the sponsor may be designated as an accredited sponsor, making all of the programs sponsored presumptively accredited.
- An individual attorney may apply for approval of the program.
- A state may recognize and presumptively approve CLE programs accredited by, and held in, other MCLE states.