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;

• 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 and one hour of which may focus on attorney wellness; 

• Technology: At least one credit hour of education addressing technology in the practice of law; and

• 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.