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Law Practice

Apr. 23, 2013

State Bar leaders explore new MCLE ideas

A new approach to continuing legal education drops the hours requirement and gives lawyers more freedom to plan their own programs. But State Bar leaders had doubts during a hearing on revamping MCLE here.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Lawyers in Alberta, Canada, don't have to report having completed a specified number of hours of continuing education each year. Instead, they each submit a personalized plan describing the education they intend to obtain in the coming year.


Regulators in England are considering a similar approach, and the governing council of the New Zealand Law Society was poised to adopt a ...

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