Brush Up On the Latest New York CLE Requirements
Experienced Attorneys New York CLE Requirements
Every attorney shall complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of CLE during each two-year compliance cycle. At least 4 of these CLE credit hours shall be in either ethics or professionalism. A minimum of 1 hour of diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias and a minimum of 1 hour of cybersecurity, privacy and data protection are required. Attorneys may apply a maximum of 3 credit hours of cybersecurity, privacy and data protection-ethics to the 4 credit hour ethics and professionalism requirement.
Experienced attorneys can complete all 24 hours of CLE through Attorney Credits, and you can find our New York Compliance bundles here. All of our bundles are updated to provide the new Cybersecurity requirement that took effect July of this year.
Newly Admitted Attorneys New York CLE Requirements
New attorneys must complete 32 credit hours of CLE within their first 2 years of admission. In the first year of admission, you must complete 7 credit hours of law practice management, areas of professional practice, and/or cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, 6 credit hours of skills, and 3 credit hours of ethics and professionalism.
In your second year of admission, you must take the same, noting that at least 1 credit hour of cybersecurity, privacy and data protection is required as part of the 32 hours.
Newly admitted attorneys can take 14 credit hours of New York CLE (7 each year) with Attorney Credits. We do not offer live courses, which are required for the skills and ethics courses. Click to see our New York Newly Admitted Bundle.
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