In Re: Commission on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education
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Serial: 149873
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
No. 89-R-99011-SCT
IN RE: COMMISSION ON MANDATORY
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
ORDER
This matter is before the Court en banc on the petition to amend Regulation 3.3 of the
Mississippi Rules for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education filed by the Mississippi
Commission on Continuing Legal Education. The Commission requests that Regulation 3.3
be amended to allow additional continuing legal education credit for participation in online
and telephonic continuing legal education programs. The proposed amendment also corrects
a technical error by the deletion of an outdated reference. After due consideration, the Court
finds that the petition should be granted.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the petition to amend Regulation 3.3 of the
Mississippi Rules for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education filed by the Mississippi
Commission on Continuing Legal Education is hereby granted. Regulation 3.3 of the
Mandatory Rules of Continuing Legal Education is amended, effective August 1, 2008, as
set forth in Exhibit A, hereto.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall enter this order on the
minutes of the Court and that a true certified copy be forwarded to West Publishing Company
for publication in the Southern Reporter Second (Mississippi Edition) and the Mississippi
Rules of Court.
SO ORDERED, this the 15 th day of September, 2008.
/s/ William L. Waller, Jr.
WILLIAM L. WALLER, JR., PRESIDING JUSTICE
TO GRANT: ALL JUSTICES.
Exhibit A
RULE 3. CLE REQUIREMENT
...
Regulations
3.3
No attorney shall be permitted to claim more than six (6) hours of CLE credit through
the use of satellite-transmitted or electronically recorded or reproduced material, even though
same is presented by an accredited sponsor. As part of the six (6) hours an attorney may
claim up to six (6) hours of CLE credit for telephone seminars and/or approved online
programs. Seminars offered by satellite-transmittal, electronic reproduction, telephone or
online programs must be approved by the Commission and must comply with Regulation 4.9.
Approved online programs further must comply with Regulation 4.10.
...
[Amended effective August 1, 1995; amended January, 1998; Regulations 3.3 and 3.6
amended effective December 9, 2004, to provide for approved online programs; Regulation
3.12.1 adopted effective December 9, 2004 to allow credit for service on Committee on
Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee of the Mississippi Bar; amended effective
January 25, 2007, to add professionalism as an option for CLE credit; amended effective
August 1, 2008, to increase the number of hours allowed for telephone seminars and online
programs.]
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