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Kentucky CLE Requirements

Kentucky; SCR 3.661 on Continuing Legal Education Requirements Compliance and Certification

(1) Each educational year, every person licensed to practice law in this Commonwealth, not specifically exempted pursuant to the provisions of Rule 3.666, shall complete a minimum of twelve and one-half (12.5) credit hours in continuing legal education activities approved by the Commission. An educational year shall begin on July 1 and end on the following June 30. All continuing legal education activities must be completed not later than June 30 of each educational year.

(2) At least two (2) of the twelve and one-half (12.5) credit hours required shall be devoted to continuing legal education specifically addressing the topics of legal ethics or professional responsibility. Programs or seminars or designated portions thereof devoted to legal ethics or professional responsibility include but are not limited to programs or seminars or designated portions thereof with instruction focusing on the Rules of Professional Conduct and/or the Rules of Professional Conduct as they are directly related to law firm management, malpractice avoidance, attorneys fees, legal ethics, and the duties of attorneys to the judicial system, public, clients and other attorneys.

(3) Integration of legal ethics or professional responsibility issues into substantive law topics is encouraged, but shall not count toward the two (2) credit minimum annual requirement.

(4) A member who accumulates an excess over the twelve and one-half (12.5) credit requirement may carry forward the excess credits into the two successive educational years for the purpose of satisfying the minimum requirement for those years. Carry forward is limited to a total of twenty-five (25) credits. All excess credits above a total of twenty-five (25) credits will remain on the member’s records but may not be carried forward.


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