Section3. Minimum Education Requirements.
Every active lawyer shall complete the following annual CLE minimum requirements:
(a) Commencing January 1, 1994, the CLE requirement for each compliance group shall be a minimum of one (1) hour of ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse and a minimum of five (5) hours of substantive law, practice and procedure.
(b) Commencing September 1, 1994, the CLE requirement for each compliance group shall be a minimum of one (1) hour of ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse and a minimum of eight (8) hours of substantive law, practice and procedure and shall be first applicable to the compliance groups as follows:
Compliance Group II August 31, 1995 Compliance Group III December 31, 1995 Compliance Group I April 30, 1996
(c) Commencing September 1, 1995, the CLE requirement shall be a minimum of one (1) hour of ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse and a minimum of eleven (11) hours of substantive law, practice and procedure and shall be first applicable to the compliance groups as follows:
Group II August 31, 1996 Group III December 31, 1996 Group I April 30, 1997
(Editor’s Note: Section 3(d) was added January 23, 2014, effective immediately.)
(d) Commencing January 30, 2014, the CLE requirement shall be a minimum of (2) hours of ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse and a minimum of (10) ten hours of substantive law, practice and procedure and shall be first applicable to the compliance groups as follows:
Group I April 30, 2015 Group II August 31, 2015 Group III December 31, 2015
(Editor’s Note: Section 3(e) was redesignated from subsection (d) to subsection (e) January 23, 2014, effective immediately.)
(e) CLE credits for ethics, professionalism, or substance abuse may be applied to any substantive law, practice and procedure requirement.
(Editor’s Note: Section 3(f) was added May 9, 2018, effective immediately.)
(f) The CLE requirement for lawyers with an Emeritus status shall be a minimum of two (2) hours of ethics, professionalism or substance abuse and a minimum of six (6) hours of substantive law, practice and procedure.
Source The provisions of this Section 3 amended March 8, 1996, effective March 9, 1996, 26 Pa.B. 984; amended November 4, 2022, section 3(d) and (e) effective January 23, 2014, section 3(f) effective May 9, 2018, 52 Pa.B. 6838. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (408777) to (408778).
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