Missouri Requirements
Continuing Legal Education requirements and restrictions for attorneys licensed in Missouri are as follows:
- Minimum CLE credit requirement is 15 hours per year, including at least three hours of ethics and professionalism and at least one of the three ethics credit hours required must be devoted exclusively to explicit or implicit bias, diversity, inclusion, or cultural competency (1 hour = 50 minutes).
- Maximum of six hours of self-study credit, including on-demand programs, is allowed each year.
- Speakers may credit up to 15 hours of preparation time for each 50-minute seminar for which they do not receive compensation.
- Authors of continuing legal education publications may credit a maximum of 15 hours of research and composition for any one work.
- Maximum of 15 hours, including 3 hours of ethics and professionalism, may be carried over from one year to the next.
Review requirements as detailed in Missouri Supreme Court Rule 15.