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Impossible and Impractical Ideas for Fixing Continuing Legal Education

By Eric Lipman

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The TechnoLawyer Blog today features a post by Marin Feldman entitled "The Case Against Today's MCLE System." Feldman, reacting to the biannual request from the New York Office of Court Administration for fees and confirmation that she has been a good little attorney and attended the requisite hours of CLE, laments that attending classes, for most lawyers, is considered a necessary evil. Feldman doesn't like that lawyers choose which classes to attend based on which of the three types of credits -- Ethics and Professionalism, Law Practice Management, or Areas of Professional Practice -- they're short of, or that lawyers don't pay a whole lot of attention when attending programs. Both observations are undoubtedly valid. I, as a litigator, attended my fair share of "Drafting the Perfect Indenture" and "ERISA: To Know Her is to Love Her" sessions. And, yes, I often spent those hours marking up draft briefs. Where I part ways with Feldman is when she gets to her three suggested changes to the MCLE requirements: 1. Practice Area Emphasis States could require attorneys to obtain CLE credits in their area of practice on a rolling basis. Restricting how lawyers can earn their credits would be more of...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).