For MCLE compliance purposes, Pennsylvania attorneys are broken into three different groups. These MCLE compliance groups are assigned randomly by your lawyer ID number. Group 1 attorneys in Pennsylvania must complete 12 hours – including 2 hours of ethics – by April 30. PA MCLE Group 1 Deadline: April 30 Pennsylvania attorneys are allowed to complete 6 hours of online CLE each…
A wife is murdered in her own home. The husband claims he tried to stop the intruder but the large man over powered him and tied him up to a chair. But the wife’s Fitbit tells a different version of the story than the tale that the husband presents. As the police investigate the case and harness the digital information created by…
California attorneys in Group 2 (H-M) should have completed their CLE completed by February , 2017. However, if you comply with your CA MCLE requirement by June 30, you only have to pay a $75 late fee.[1] Extensions of Time If you comply with the California MCLE requirement by June 30, you do not need to request an extension of time. You…
If you are an attorney in Georgia and you have not yet completed your 2017 Georgia CLE requirement, you are RAPIDLY running out of time! Georgia attorneys were required to complete 12 GA CLE hours by December 31 to complete the Georgia CLE requirement. Late GA CLE Compliance A $100 penalty fee is required if the Georgia CLE hours for the preceding…
Retiring Baby Boomers will sell or bequeath $10 trillion worth of assets over the next two decades. And many of these assets are held in over 12 million privately owned businesses that will be changing hands over the next few decades. Exit Planning for Business Owners A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that only about 27% of private businesses have done ANY…
Oklahoma attorneys must complete a minimum of 12 Oklahoma CLE credit hours each year in order to complete the OK CLE requirement. As part of the 12 hour annual OK CLE requirement, at least 1 hour must be approved for legal ethics credit. Oklahoma CLE Compliance & Reporting Compliance Deadline: December 31 Reporting Deadline: February 15 Late Deadline: March 15 All Oklahoma…
We get extremely busy around the end of the year and through January. This is due to the fact that a number of states have December 31 deadlines and California has a January 31 deadline. Once we get through our super busy period, then we switch gears and start calendaring more CLE tapings for the new year. Well, it’s that time of…
Georgia attorneys are required to complete 12 GA CLE hours each year.[1] The deadline to complete the required 12 Georgia CLE credit hours is December 31 and the reporting deadline is January 31. We are now deep into February – did you miss the GA CLE deadline?? Late GA CLE Compliance[2] A $100 penalty fee is assessed If y0ur Georgia CLE is…
Pick up the phone and call your clients, don’t “borrow” money from trust accounts, calendar every key deadline & date – the same fundamental ethics principles still hold true for the 21st century lawyer. That’s because the same traditional ethics issues continue to plague lawyers, leading to countless ethics violations and malpractice lawsuits. Lawyers & Ethics The same traditional legal ethics issues…
Just a quick reminder for California attorneys. The former Substance Abuse requirement is now called Competence Issues. The Substance Abuse category was effectively expanded to cover additional topics like mental health, stress and how it effects attorney’s competence to practice law. California attorneys must make sure to complete at least 1.0 hour of Competence Issues each three-year compliance period. Last names H-M…