North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE BAR › Chapter 01 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Subchapter D - RULES OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Section .1500 - RULES GOVERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAM › Section 01D .1519 - ACCREDITATION STANDARDS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The board shall approve continuing legal education programs
					 that meet the following standards and provisions.
(a) They shall have significant intellectual
				  or practical content and the primary objective shall be to increase the
				  participant's professional competence and proficiency as a lawyer.
(b) They shall constitute an organized
				  program of learning dealing with matters directly related to the practice of
				  law, professional responsibility, professionalism, or ethical obligations of
				  lawyers.
(c) Credit may be given
				  for continuing legal education programs where live instruction is used or
				  mechanically or electronically recorded or reproduced material is used,
				  including videotape, satellite transmitted, and online programs.
(d) Continuing legal education materials are
				  to be prepared, and programs conducted, by an individual or group qualified by
				  practical or academic experience. Credit shall not be given for any continuing
				  legal education program taught or presented by a disbarred lawyer except a
				  program on professional responsibility (including a program on the effects of
				  substance abuse and chemical dependency, or debilitating mental conditions on a
				  lawyer's professional responsibilities) taught by a disbarred lawyer whose
				  disbarment date is at least five years (60 months) prior to the date of the
				  program. The advertising for the program shall disclose the lawyer's
				  disbarment.
(e) Live continuing
				  legal education programs shall be conducted in a setting physically suitable to
				  the educational nature of the program and, when appropriate, equipped with
				  suitable writing surfaces or sufficient space for taking notes.
(f) Thorough, high quality, and carefully
				  prepared written materials should be distributed to all attendees at or before
				  the time the program is presented. These may include written materials printed
				  from a website or computer presentation. A written agenda or outline for a
				  program satisfies this requirement when written materials are not suitable or
				  readily available for a particular subject. The absence of written materials
				  for distribution should, however, be the exception and not the rule.
(g) A sponsor of an approved program must
				  timely remit fees as required in Rule .1606 and keep and maintain attendance
				  records of each continuing legal education program sponsored by it, which shall
				  be furnished to the board in accordance with regulations. Participation in an
				  online program must be verified as provided in Rule .1601(d).
(h) Except as provided in Rules .1501
				  and.1602(h) of this subchapter, in-house continuing legal education and
				  self-study shall not be approved or accredited for the purpose of complying
				  with Rule .1518 of this subchapter.
(i) Programs that cross academic lines, such
				  as accounting-tax seminars, may be considered for approval by the board.
				  However, the board must be satisfied that the content of the program would
				  enhance legal skills or the ability to practice law.
Authority - Order of
					 the North Carolina Supreme Court, October 7, 1987, 318 N.C. 711;
Readopted Eff. December 8, 1994;
Amendments Approved by the Supreme
					 Court: March 1, 2001; October 1, 2003; February 5, 2009; March 11, 2010; April
					 5, 2018; September 25, 2019; December 14,
					 2021.