New Attorney MCLE Requirements
Your New Admit Requirements:
Earn 15 Credits by Attending at Least 5 Required Programs
As a new attorney, you are required to earn 15 of your first 24 credits by attending at least 5 programs out of 9 core subject areas.
Specifically, those core subject are programs are:
- New Jersey Estate Administration
- New Jersey Estate Planning
- New Jersey Civil Trial Preparation OR
New Jersey Criminal Trial Preparation - New Jersey Family Law Practice
- New Jersey Real Estate Closing Procedures
- New Jersey Trust & Business Accounting
- New Jersey Landlord-Tenant Practice
- New Jersey Municipal Court Practice
- New Jersey Law Office Management
New Requirements
The new diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias requirement applies to the following groups.
Year of Admission
Requirement Begins
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements
Year of Admission: 2019
Requirement Begins: 1/1/20
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/21 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/23 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Year of Admission: 2020
Requirement Begins: 1/1/21
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 12 credits by 12/31/21 at least 2.5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Transitional reporting period+
Transitional reporting period+
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/23 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
Year of Admission: 2021
Requirement Begins: 1/1/22
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/23 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity Must complete new admit requirement**
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/25 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Year of Admission: 2022
Requirement Begins: 1/1/23
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 12 credits by 12/31/23 at least 2.5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Transitional reporting period+
Transitional reporting period+
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/25 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
Year of Admission: 2023
Requirement Begins: 1/1/24
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/25 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/27 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Year of Admission
Requirement Begins
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements
Year of Admission: 2019
Requirement Begins: 1/1/20
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 12 credits by 12/31/20 at least 2.5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Transitional reporting period+
Transitional reporting period+
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/22 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
Year of Admission: 2020
Requirement Begins: 1/1/21
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/22 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/24 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Year of Admission: 2021
Requirement Begins: 1/1/22
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 12 credits by 12/31/22 at least 2.5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Transitional reporting period+
Transitional reporting period+
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/24 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
Year of Admission: 2022
Requirement Begins: 1/1/23
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/24 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/26 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Year of Admission: 2023
Requirement Begins: 1/1/24
Your 1st Compliance Reporting Period Requirements: 12 credits by 12/31/24 at least 2.5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 1 in Diversity
Transitional reporting period+
Transitional reporting period+
All Following 2-Year Compliance Reporting Cycle Requirements: 24 credits by 12/31/26 at least 5 credits in Ethics and Professionalism including 2 in Diversity
Must complete new admit requirement**
Must complete new admit requirement**