MCLE Reporting Requirements
Fresno County Bar Association (Provider #2970) is a Multiple Activity Provider licensed by the State Bar of California. FCBA offers MCLE to all its members who are in the legal profession. These MCLE classes will enhance the member’s professional ability to practice law, and knowledge of law, including the obligations and professional standards as a member of the State Bar of California.
All FCBA members can now obtain their Certificates through your MYFCBA Dashboard. If you attended an FCBA event or Section meeting from February 2024 to current, your Certificate is available for printing.
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.
NOTICE: Please note the following updates to MCLE compliance deadlines:
- Last names A-G: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2025. Report deadline: April 1, 2025.
- Compliance groups 2 and 3: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2026, or 2027. Report deadline: March 30.
- After the single 38-month cycle, each group returns to a standard 36-month cycle starting March 30 of their respective year and ending the day before the deadline 36 months later.
MCLE Compliance Groups
Attorneys admitted on or before Feb. 1, 1992, were assigned to a compliance group based on the first letter of their last name, as listed on their official State Bar records, effective Feb. 1, 1992, (the beginning of the MCLE program.)
Attorneys admitted after Feb. 1, 1992 are assigned to a compliance group based on the first letter of the last name listed on their admit cards. Admit cards are filled out when they are sworn in.
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GROUP 1 (A-G) Attorneys with last names beginning with A-G. Compliance period: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending 3/29/2025 Reporting Deadline: 04/01/2025 |
GROUP 2 (H-M) Attorneys with last names beginning with H-M Compliance period: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending 3/29/2027 Reporting Deadline: 03/30/2027 |
GROUP 3 (N-Z) Attorneys with last names beginning with N-Z. Compliance period: Extended to a single cycle 38-month ending 3/29/2026 Reporting Deadline: 03/30/2026 |
After the single 38-month cycle, each group returns to a standard 36-month cycle starting March 30 of their respective year and ending the day before the deadline 36 months later.
For more information about the State Bar of California requirements, visit https://www.calbar.ca.gov/legal-professionals/maintaining-compliance/mcle
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