When the Superior Court Rules Committee conducted a public hearing last month on the rule it had earlier approved and then made only minor, insignificant changes, the penultimate step was taken in the long-running effort to implement Minimum Continuing Legal Education in Connecticut.
The struggle began 12 years ago with the Connecticut Bar Association’s CLE Committee conducting meetings with various bar groups around the state to learn what lawyers thought about a rule requiring CLE and how such a rule should be structured if there were to be MCLE. That long “listening tour” led the CBA to submit a proposed rule to the Judicial Branch Rules Committee in September 2011, followed by an amended proposed rule in February 2012, which addressed additional concerns raised by various bar organizations and individual lawyers.
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