Florida CLE Requirements

33 credit hours every three years

All credits may be completed online

25 hours General

At least 5 hours in Legal Ethics, Professionalism, Substance Abuse, or Mental Illness Awareness, or Bias Elimination

At least 1 of the 5 Legal Ethics hours must be in Professionalism

At least 3 hours in Technology

*Compliance for the technology credit requirement will begin in the member’s next reporting cycle following the January 1, 2017 effective date.

*Compliance for the new professionalism rule will begin in the member’s next reporting cycle following the March 5, 2019 effective date.

Individual by Attorney

*Attorneys are assigned individual compliance and reporting deadlines upon admission to the Bar. Please contact The Florida Bar for more information on your deadline date.

Florida is a self-reporting jurisdiction.

All Florida Bar members in good standing under the age of 36 and all members in good standing who have not been admitted to the practice of law in any jurisdiction for more than 5 years is a member of the Young Lawyers Division (Rule 1.9.1 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar).

There two phases to the BSCR (Rule 6-12.3). They are:

Phase I: Completion of Practicing with Professionalism (PWP) within the first year of admission to The Florida Bar.

Phase II: Completion of 3 basic level programs (or 21 hours of basic level programming) within the first three years of admission to The Florida Bar. Basic level courses that satisfy the BSCR requirement will begin with the term “Basic” in its title (i.e. Basic Criminal Law, Basic Trial Practice, Basic Real Property, etc.), and sponsored by the Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar.

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