Continuing Legal Education

A career in law can involve continuing education of all kinds. You may want to add or switch specialties, gain new skills, or simply update yourself in your field. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) helps attorneys stay current with new laws or expand their legal expertise with education that is beyond the minimum that the State Bar requires.

Online CLE

The State Bar of California offers various options for online self-study and participatory activities that are approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit. The State Bar certifies that programs meet the standards of MCLE rules and regulations.

Participatory CLE Credit

View online programs for participatory MCLE credit, as approved by the California Lawyers Association (CLA), the designated provider of low-cost MCLE credit under the State Bar Act. The CLA catalog contains hundreds of hours of online CLE, including a wide variety of programs by California attorneys for California attorneys. Programs include MCLE subfields, with more than 100 offering credit in legal ethics, recognition and elimination of bias in the legal profession, and society and competency issues.

Online CLE for Participatory Credit

MCLE Self-Study

The State Bar offers low-cost self-study tests that are approved for MCLE credit. These are available in the State Bar’s E-learning Portal.

E-learning Portal

Apply to be a fee arbitrator. Note: All arbitrators must complete the Basic Fee Arbitrator Training program, available here as a self-study MCLE video, before they can be assigned to hear a MFA case.

Fee Arbitrator Appointments Application