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Education State Bar MCLE Requirements

State Bar MCLE Requirements

Find your group by the first letter of your last name*. The current group is Group 3 (N-Z). The Group 3 MCLE compliance deadline is January 31, 2023.

Compliance Group* Total Hours
Required		 Legal Ethics Competence Issues
(formerly Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Substance Abuse or Mental Illness)		 Recognition and Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession and Society
 
Group 1 (A–G)
Period:
2/1/19 – 1/31/22
Deadline:
February 1, 2022		 25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)		 4 hours required 1 hour required 2 hours required**
 
Group 2 (H–M)
Period:
2/1/21 – 1/31/24
Deadline:
February 1, 2024		 25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)		 4 hours required 1 hour required 2 hours required**
 
Group 3 (N–Z)
Period:
2/1/20 – 1/31/23
Deadline:
February 1, 2023		 25 hours required
(12.5 may be self-study)		 4 hours required 1 hour required 2 hours required**
* Attorneys are permanently assigned to a compliance group once. You always remain in that same group, even if you subsequently change your last name. 

**At least two hours dealing with elimination of bias. Of the two hours, at least one hour must focus on implicit bias and the promotion of bias reducing strategies. The new implicit bias education requirement will begin applying to attorneys in MCLE compliance group 3 who must report compliance for the period ending on January 31, 2023.

More MCLE Information from the California State Bar:

  • Attorneys 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).
  • Attorneys 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.