All Ethics/Professionalism credit is designated as dual credit. See Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 21 § 3.01(b).
Dual credit is granted when the subject matter of the program is the Rules of Professional Conduct or ethical considerations applicable to attorneys.
Dual credit will also be granted to programs or topics:
a. designed to sustain or increase the capacity of attorneys to strive for and to achieve the highest, aspirational levels of professionalism, including programs aimed at increasing attorney well-being, optimism, resilience, relationship skills, and energy and engagement in their practices;
b. designed to help lawyers re-connect with, strengthen, and apply their values, strengths of character, and sense of purpose toward achieving outstanding professionalism;
c. designed to protect lawyers or help them recover from the deleterious effects on professionalism of stress, substance abuse, and poor staff, financial, or time management; or
d. designed to support the development of organizational cultures within firms, law departments, and legal agencies that recognize, support, and encourage outstanding professionalism.
All programs must be clearly and primarily designed and intended for attorneys, not a general audience. Programs and topics focused on advertising legal services will be denied all credit, except to the extent they deal with the ethical restrictions concerning advertising.
Finally, in order to qualify for credit, the topics must be presented in a session separate and apart
from the general credit topics, with specific time allocated to only such topics. See Reg. 5H.