State Bar MCLE Requirements

Find your group by the first letter of your last name. For example, Group 2 includes last names starting with the letters from A to G*. The current group is Group 1 (A-G). The Group 1 MCLE compliance deadline is February 1, 2010.

Compliance Group Total Hours Required Legal Ethics Detection / Prevention of Substance Abuse Elimination of Bias
In the
Legal Profession
Group 1 (A–G)

Period:
2/1/07 – 1/31/10
Deadline:
February 1, 2010

25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)

4 hours required 1 hour required 1 hour required
 
Group 2 (H–M)

Period:
2/1/06 – 1/31/09
Deadline:
February 2, 2009

25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)

4 hours required 1 hour required 1 hour required
 
Group 3 (N–Z)

Period:
2/1/08 – 1/31/11
Deadline:
February 1, 2011

25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)

4 hours required 1 hour required 1 hour required

* Members are permanently assigned to a compliance group once. You always remain in that same group, even if you subsequently change your last name. You were assigned to a group as follows:

 

More MCLE Information from the California State Bar

 

  • Members admitted on or before February 1, 1992 were assigned to a compliance group based on the first letter of their last name as listed on official State Bar records on Feb. 1, 1992 (the beginning of the MCLE program).
  • Members admitted after February 1, 1992 were assigned to a compliance group based on the last name listed on their admit card, which they fill out when they are sworn in as a member of the Bar.