NOTICE: Please note the following updates to MCLE compliance deadlines:
Last names A–G (compliance Group 1): Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2025. Report deadline: April 1, 2025.
Last names N–Z (compliance Group 3): Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2026. Report deadline: March 30, 2026.
Last names H–M (compliance Group 2): Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2027. Report deadline: March 30, 2027.
After the single 38-month cycle, each group returns to a standard 36-month cycle starting March 30 of their respective year and ending the day before the deadline 36 months later.
With a few exceptions, all active State Bar licensees must complete 25 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in their three-year compliance periods and file a report with the State Bar. The State Bar audits compliance with MCLE requirements. Find your MCLE compliance group.
MCLE compliance fees
Fee Type
Fees
Late Fee Penalty
$106
E-mod
$106
Reinstatement
$318
MCLE Credit Request
$106
Current MCLE compliance requirements
For the compliance period ending March 29, 2026, and subject to the proportional requirements (State Bar Rule 2.72(C)(2)(c) and exceptions (State Bar Rule 2.54), licensees are required to complete and report 25 hours of MCLE within the three-year compliance period as follows:
At least 12.5 credit hours must be participatory credit hours
Legal Ethics: At least four credit hours of legal ethics
Elimination of Bias: At least two credit hours of dealing with the recognition and elimination of bias in the legal profession and society by reason of, but not limited to, sex, color, race, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical disability, age, or sexual orientation
Implicit Bias/Bias-Reducing Strategies: One hour of this requirement must focus on implicit bias and the promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics undermine confidence in the legal system
Competence: At least two credit hours of education addressing competence, one hour of which must focus on prevention and detection
Technology: At least one credit hour of education addressing technology in the practice of law
Civility: At least one hour of education addressing civility in the legal profession
For current and new MCLE credit requirements, a licensee may reduce the required 25 hours in proportion to the number of full months the licensee was inactive or exempt in the 36‐month compliance period, except that the requirements of paragraphs (B)(2)(a)(ii) and (B)(2)(a)(iii) may not be reduced to less than one hour each. Up to half the reduced hours may be self‐study. See MCLE credit tool for more information.
2025 MCLE compliance requirements
For the compliance period ending March 29, 2025, and subject to the proportional requirements (State Bar Rule 2.72(C)(2)(c) and exceptions (State Bar Rule 2.54), licensees are required to complete and report 25 hours of MCLE within the three-year compliance period as follows:
At least 12.5 credit hours must be participatory credit hours
At least four credit hours of legal ethics (Legal Ethics Credit)
At least two credit hours of dealing with the recognition and elimination of bias in the legal profession and society by reason of, but not limited to, sex, color, race, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical disability, age, or sexual orientation (Elimination of Bias Credit)
One hour of this requirement must focus on implicit bias and the promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics undermine confidence in the legal system (Implicit Bias/Bias-Reducing Strategies Credit)
At least two credit hours of education addressing competence, one hour of which much focus on prevention and detection (Competence Credit)
At least one credit hour of education addressing technology in the practice of law (Technology Credit)
At least one hour of education addressing civility in the legal profession (Civility Credit)
Some attorneys may be able to claim a reduced number of hours because they were just admitted to the State Bar, were inactive, or claimed an exempt status. Find out more about attorneys subject to proportional requirements.
