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Perspective

Apr. 30, 2013

An elephant in the CLE room

When comes to continuing education requirements, the legal community is for continuing the status quo. By Kurt Osenbaugh

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

The elephant in the room regarding continuing education requirements ["State Bar leaders explore new MCLE ideas," April 22] is the lawyer equivalent of the military industrial complex: the common interests of the State Bar, the law-related vendors who finance the bar, and, admittedly, law firms who benefit from the inducement of continuing education credits to get in-house counsel to come to firm sponsored seminars. In other wo...

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