What Are The California MCLE Requirements?

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For the compliance period ending January 31, 2024, here are the MCLE requirements for a licensed California attorney:

  • 25 hours over 3 years
  • 12.5 of those 25 hours must be participatory
  • 4 hours must be for legal ethics
  • 2 hours must be for elimination of bias; 1 of those 2 hours must be for implicit bias
  • 1 hour must be for competence (substance abuse or mental health)

What Is A Participatory MCLE?

A participatory MCLE means a MCLE where your attendance is documented by a third party like the MCLE vendor. Compare that to a self-study MCLE, where you self-report your attendance.

What Are The New MCLE Requirements?

For the compliance period ending January 31, 2025, you need the above requirements plus the following:

  • The 1 hour for competence must now be on prevention and detection; you need 1 more hour for competence and it must be on attorney wellness (so 2 total)
  • 1 hour must be for technology
  • 1 hour must be for civility

What Is My CMLE Compliance Group?

You can find that info here.

You are assigned a compliance group based on your last name.

What Is Considered A MCLE?

A CLE (Continuing Legal Education) is an educational program intended to help attorneys stay current with new laws or expand their legal expertise.

Mandatory means it’s required by the State Bar.

Any MCLE you attend should be approved by the State Bar. You should be able to find that info here.

Evan Walker

Evan W. Walker is a La Jolla attorney who has practiced law since 2008. He has practiced law throughout California, Connecticut, and Louisiana.

Evan worked for and defended insurance companies during the first 7 years of his practice. Since 2015, he has represented people with personal injury and property damage claims and insurance disputes.

Evan’s practice is devoted to serious personal injury claims and catastrophic property damage claims. Areas of focus include security claims against bars and other businesses, government tort claims, fire and flood claims, and inverse condemnation. On behalf of clients, Evan has fought insurance firms, international companies, cities, bars, and casinos.

Evan regularly shares his expertise with other attorneys by teaching courses on insurance and inverse condemnation. He has taught several continuing legal education courses to Attorney Credits, a nationwide CLE company, and ProLawCLE, another nationwide CLE company. He also contributes to various podcasts and publications.

Associations:

  • Member, State Bar of California
  • Member, San Diego Bar Association
  • Member, Consumer Attorneys of California
  • Member, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
  • Member, La Jolla Bar Association
  • Member, La Jolla Village Merchants Association
  • Member, San Diego Chamber of Commerce