Please Read Carefully
New
York's mandatory continuing legal education rule for all attorneys
went into effect on December 31, 1998. Veteran attorneys need
24 credit hours during each biennial registration period.
New
lawyers admitted 2 years or less, under the portion of the
rule established in October '97, must take 16 credit hours
each year for a total of 32 transitional (Practical Skills/Bridge
the Gap) training hours during their first two years of practice.
New Attorneys can ON attend "Practical Skills/Bridge the Gap"
(transitional courses) to meet their requirements. Veteran
attorneys can attend all courses for credit, both transitional
and intermediate.
The
Monroe County Bar Association's Academy of Law was accredited
April of '98 as a provider of continuing legal education.
Consequently, Academy courses taken by attorneys at MCBA are
presumptively approved and maybe utilized to fulfill the requirements.
COURSES OFFERED BY THE ACADEMY SINCE JANUARY 1998 WILL COUNT
RETROACTIVE . **This is a self reporting process. A Certificate
of Attendance will be provided by the Bar Association following
each course. The MCLE Rules can be accessed at the Unified
Court System website (http://www.courts.state.ny.us/mcle.htm
) or by calling the New York State Continuing Legal Education
Board at the following toll-free number -- 1-877-NYS-4CLE.
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MCLE
Program Category Definitions
1. 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; and professional values (including professional
development, improving the profession and the promotion, of
fairness, justice and morality).
2. Skills 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, organization and trial advocacy.
3. Practice Management may encompass, among other things,
law office management, state and federal courthouse procedure,
substance abuse control, stress management, management of
legal work and avoiding malpractice and litigation.
4. Areas of Professional Practice may include, among other
things, corporations, wills/trusts, elder law, estate planning/administration,
real estate, civil litigation, criminal litigation, family
law, labor and employment law, administrative law, securities,
tort/insurance practice, bankruptcy, taxation, workers' compensation,
municipal law, land lord/tenant, environmental law, social
security and other government benefits, and alternative dispute
resolution procedures.
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