New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 22 - JUDICIARY › Subtitle B - Courts › Chapter IV - Supreme Court › Subchapter E - All Departments › Part 1500 - Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Program For Attorneys In The State Of New York › Subpart B - Mandatory Continuing Legal Education for Newly Admitted Attorneys › Section 1500.12 - Minimum requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28,
						July 10, 2024
(a) Credit Hours. Within the first two
						(2) years of the date of admission to the Bar, each newly admitted attorney
						shall complete a minimum of 32 credit hours (16 credit hours each year) of
						accredited transitional education as follows:
Year 1*
Year 2*
Seven (7) credit hours of law practice
										management, areas of professional practice, and/or cybersecurity, privacy and
										data protection-general;
Seven (7) credit hours of law practice
										management, areas of professional practice, and/or cybersecurity, privacy and
										data protection-general;
Six (6) credit hours of skills;
										and
Six (6) credit hours of skills;
										and
Three (3) credit hours of ethics and
										professionalism. For cybersecurity, privacy and data protection-ethics, see
										below.**
Three (3) credit hours of ethics and
										professionalism. For cybersecurity, privacy and data protection-ethics, see
										below.**
*As part of the 32-credit hour requirement, each newly
						  admitted attorney must complete at least one (1) credit hour of cybersecurity,
						  privacy and data protection.
** Attorneys may apply a maximum of three (3) credit
						  hours of cybersecurity, privacy and data protection-ethics to the six-credit
						  hour ethics and professionalism requirement.
Ethics and professionalism, skills, law practice
						  management, areas of professional practice, and cybersecurity, privacy and data
						  protection are defined in §
													1500.2.
(b) Carry-Over Credit. Except as provided in
						section 1500.13(b)(2), a
						newly admitted attorney who accumulates more than the 16 hours of credit
						required in the first year of admission to the Bar may carry over to the second
						year of admission to the Bar a maximum of eight (8) credits. Six (6) credits in
						excess of the 16-hour requirement in the second year of admission to the Bar
						may be carried over to the following biennial reporting cycle to fulfill the
						requirements of Subpart C. Credit in ethics and professionalism and
						cybersecurity, privacy and data protection-ethics may not be carried
						over.
(c) Accredited
						courses or programs only. Transitional continuing legal education credit will
						be granted only for courses and programs approved as such by the CLE board,
						except as provided in subdivision (d) of this section. No transitional
						continuing legal education course or program consisting of nontraditional
						formats, such as self-study, correspondence work, videotapes, audiotapes,
						motion picture presentations or on-line programs may be accepted for credit
						without prior permission from the CLE board, except as provided in the
						regulations and guidelines.
(d) Other jurisdictions. Transitional
						continuing legal education courses approved by another state, the District of
						Columbia, any territory of the United States or any foreign jurisdiction with
						requirements meeting the standards adopted by the CLE board shall count toward
						the newly admitted attorney's compliance with New York's transitional CLE
						program requirements in accordance with the regulations and guidelines
						established by the CLE board and this Part.
(e) Post-graduation/pre-admission. A
						maximum of 16 credit hours of approved transitional CLE courses taken from the
						date of graduation from law school up through the date of admission to the New
						York Bar may be applied toward a newly admitted attorney's first-year CLE
						program requirements. Credit hours in excess of 16 may not be carried over and
						applied toward the second-year CLE requirement.
(f) Obligations of attorneys
						exempt from the program requirements.
(1) An attorney who is exempt from the
						requirements of this program and who is required to comply with the continuing
						legal education requirements of another jurisdiction shall comply with those
						requirements and shall certify to this compliance on the attorney's biennial
						attorney registration statement.
(2) An attorney who is exempt from the
						requirements of this program and who is not required to comply with the
						continuing legal education requirements of another jurisdiction shall so
						certify on the attorney's biennial attorney registration statement.
(3) An attorney who is exempt
						from the requirements of this program and who thereafter ceases to be exempt
						and commences the practice of law in New York during the first two years after
						admission to the Bar shall be required to complete by the end of those two
						years 1.5 credit hours of accredited continuing legal education as set forth in
						subdivision (a) of this section, in any combination of categories set forth in
						said section, for each full month of the two-year period during which the
						attorney practices law in New York.
(4) An attorney who permanently ceases
						to practice law in New York while commencing or continuing the practice of law
						in another jurisdiction shall be exempt from the requirements of this program
						for the year in which the permanent cessation from New York practice occurred,
						and shall comply with the requirements of any jurisdiction in which the
						attorney practices law during that year.