2022 CLE Compliance – March 31 deadline

Attorneys who did not complete the required 15 hours of CLE (3 ethics and 12 general) must earn the hours and pay a $100 compliance fee by March 31 to avoid additional penalties. Any hours earned in 2023 will be applied to 2022 compliance if necessary, but a $100 fee will apply. Attorneys can check […]

Supreme Court Makes Appointments to CLE Commission

   The Tennessee Supreme Court filed an Order December 12, 2022, appointing two new members to the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education, extending the terms of two members, and reappointing David Veile to another one-year term as chair of the Commission.      New to the Commission are Dr. LaDonna Tatum Williams, an assistant […]

Court eliminates distance-learning limitations

The Tennessee Supreme Court has amended the Rule for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education to remove limitations on distance-learning continuing legal education (“CLE”) credits. The Order was filed and effective on November 1, 2022. The change to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 21 deletes the previous requirement that Tennessee-licensed attorneys with a CLE obligation earn at least […]

2022 CLE Obligation

All CLE hours for 2022 may be earned online. The Tennessee Supreme Court has not made a decision regarding carryforward hours or hours for 2023. The Commission will send Progress Reports to all attorneys active with the Commission by November 1, 2023. Provders have 30 days to report hours to the Commission, so recent CLE […]

Attorneys on Suspension Order

If you are an attorney not in compliance with 2021 CLE Requirements, you must complete the following: • Pay any fees due• Earn any hours and file an Affidavit of Compliance including the Tennessee CLE course number. Unaccredited courses without Tennessee course numbers are not valid for the Affidavit of Compliance, or• File a valid […]

CLE Commission Files Petition with Tennessee Supreme Court

On September 19, 2022, the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education filed a Petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court proposing amendments to Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 21.  See the document here. In addition, the Commission filed a Motion to Withdraw a Petition the Commission filed in 2020. The new Petition incorporates many of the suggestions from the 2020 […]