CLE Credits Information

Texas

Under the Texas MCLE Rules, you can now satisfy ALL of your annual CLE credits through our online CLE seminars. These are regular participatory CLE credit hours just like you would earn from traditional live CLE seminars, and there is NO LIMIT on the number of credit hours that you can earn each year through our online CLE seminars. Many of our seminars are also accredited for legal ethics credit. Each of our CLEonline.com seminars are assigned a course number by the State Bar of Texas and this is posted in the Seminar Room for each of our seminars.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Under the new Texas MCLE Rules, you will now need to report your CLE credits for any seminars that you complete on our site directly to your MCLE record at the Bar by the last day of your birth month in order to avoid a non-compliance penalty fee. Due to this rules change, we will not be able to report your credits for you to the Bar since our seminar sessions do not end each month until the last day of the month, and your credits must now be both completed and recorded on your record at the Bar by the last day of your birth month.

Once you have completed a seminar on our site, you can enter your final CLE credits on our site to verify your completion, and then you will need to go to the MCLE page on the State Bar of Texas Website to record your final CLE credits for the seminar on your MCLE record at the Bar. You can go directly to this page on the MCLE site by clicking the following link:

https://www.texasbar.com/customsource/wrapper/
mcleonline/member/main.asp

You will then need to login with your Texas Bar number and PIN number. (If you don't already have a PIN number for the MCLE site, you can easily create it once you are there.) After you login, then click the link to 'Add Course or Self-Study Credit'. You will then need to use the course number assigned to your seminar (which is posted in the Seminar Room for each of our seminars) to add your final CLE credits for the seminar to your MCLE record. Should you have any questions about using this new MCLE system to record your credits on your MCLE record, please call the MCLE Dept. of the State Bar at 1-800-204-2222, ext. 2106.

Texas Real Estate Commision MCE Credits:

If you are an attorney and you are also licensed by the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC), you can obtain mandatory continuing education (MCE) credits required by TREC for our CLEonline.com seminars, so long as at least fifty (50) percent of the seminar content is devoted to real estate related topics. (NOTE: Unless specifically noted in the seminar title, all of our online CLE seminars are approved as 'participatory' credit by the State Bar of Texas, so this satisfies the other requirement that TREC has established for CLE seminars.) To obtain MCE credit for one of our real estate seminars, you would need to complete the following steps:

  1. Download and print the form entitled "Individual MCE Elective Credit Request for State Bar Course" from the TREC Web site by clicking this link.

  2. Complete and sign this form per the instructions contained on the form itself.

  3. Login to the Seminar Room of your seminar on our site. Click the 'CLE Credits' tab at the top of the page and then the link labeled 'Certificate of Attendance'. This will allow you to download a Uniform Certificate of Attendance form for your seminar, which you will need to print and sign. (NOTE: You have access to your seminar on our site at all times through the end of the current month. However, if you completed a seminar in a prior month, click the link labeled 'Access Your Records' after logging in to our site. Then, click the link labeled 'Certificate of Attendance' adjacent to your seminar title.)

  4. Send both completed forms to TREC at the address provided on their form.

California

Just like Texas, California attorneys can also satisfy ALL required CLE credits through our online CLE seminars. CLEonline.com has been designated as an approved California MCLE provider (Provider #8648) by the State Bar of California, so all of our online CLE seminars are automatically accredited in California. These are regular participatory credit hours just like you would earn from traditional live CLE seminars, and there is NO LIMIT on the number of credit hours that you can obtain each year through our online CLE seminars. After completion of one of our CLEonline.com seminars, you can download your Uniform Certificate of Attendance form directly from our site that you would then keep in your California MCLE file. There is no central reporting form required to be filed with the State Bar of California, as is the case in Texas.

New York

New York attorneys can also earn CLE credits toward their New York MCLE requirements through our online CLE seminars. However, not all of our available seminars are eligible for CLE credit in New York, so please be sure to click this link to see a listing of our online seminars allowed for New York CLE credits.

The New York MCLE regulations require that you verify your completion of the audio (video) materials for an online CLE seminar through a validation system that we have established on our site. This validation is required in order to generate the required documentation that you will need to claim your New York CLE credits for a seminar. When you listen to the audio (video) materials, a validation code will be mentioned at some point during the course of the audio (video) recording for the seminar. This validation code will be required in order to verify your completion of the audio (video) materials and download the required documents.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are licensed in New York and you wish to register for one our seminars that is authorized for credit in New York, please be sure that your user record properly reflects your New York license. If you are not yet a registered CLEonline.com user, click the tab labeled 'NEW USER' above and make sure that you select 'New York' under the space for 'State Bar License(s)' when you submit your new user registration. If you are already a registered user on our site, you can check your record by clicking the tab labeled 'USER PROFILE' above and verifying that 'New York' is listed as one of your State Bar License(s) in your user profile.

Nevada

If you are an attorney licensed in Nevada, you can obtain Nevada CLE credits for any of our CLEonline.com seminars that contain either audio or video content. Text-based online CLE seminars are currently not allowed for CLE credit in Nevada. To obtain your CLE credits in Nevada for a qualifying seminar on our site, you would need to complete the following steps:

  1. Download and print the form entitled "Application for Approval of Individual Course" from the Nevada Bar Web site by clicking this link.
  2. Complete this form per the instructions contained on the form itself. You can print a seminar description for the seminar on our site by clicking the SEMINARS button at the top of the page and then click the title of your seminar to see a full description page.
  3. After you complete your CLEonline.com seminar, you can download and print the Uniform Certificate of Attendance form for the seminar in which you were registered. To obtain this form for your seminar, simply click the 'CLE Credits' link in the Seminar Room of your seminar. Then click the link for 'Certificate of Attendance' to download a PDF copy of your certificate. After you print the form, sign and date the certificate.
  4. Send both completed forms to the Nevada Board of Continuing Legal Education at the address provided on their form.

Other States...

Several other states will now allow CLE credits for online CLE seminars. A number of states will allow credit for our online CLE seminars based on the fact that they have been accredited for participatory credit by another MCLE state (i.e., Texas.) Tennessee will also allow credit for CLEonline.com seminars (subject to certain limitations such as only 1 hour for text-based only seminars and an overall limit of 6 hours per year.) CLEonline.com is also an accredited provider in the State of Vermont, so ALL CLEonline.com seminars can be used by Vermont attorneys to satisfy their annual MCLE requirements. If you are licensed in another state, please feel free to contact us for additional information or contact the MCLE office in your state to inquire about the status of their rules and policies for online CLE credit.

Unfortunately, some of the other MCLE states are currently not allowing any credit for online CLE seminars. For those of you in such jurisdictions, we would STRONGLY URGE you to begin lobbying the members of your CLE Commission/Committee and your Supreme Court to let them know that you would like to see online CLE accredited in your state to the same extent allowed in Texas, California and other states (i.e., on par with traditional CLE seminars and with no limit on the number of credit hours allowed.)

Online CLE seminars are clearly becoming the preferred method for delivery of CLE for attorneys who use the Internet extensively. In fact, the ABA House of Delegates has recognized the value of online CLE by adopting a change in the Model Rule for Minimum Continuing Legal Education to allow for accreditation of online CLE seminars. However, it is going to take attorneys in each jurisdiction to make your voices heard so that online CLE can be treated equally with traditional live CLE seminars in each state. If the members of the Commission and Court in your state will objectively look at the learning process afforded by online CLE, they will see that this is clearly NOT self-study, and that our online CLE seminars include functions and features that allow for clear interaction and participation among the seminar participants and the instructor/moderators. The notion of 'distance learning' has been around for quite some time in the academic world, and there is clear empirical evidence that distance learning is a viable educational activity on par (or better) than the traditional 'classroom' approach. We would be happy to assist any of you in other states in working to change your local MCLE rules so that online CLE seminars can receive equitable consideration in all MCLE jurisdictions.