Mandatory continuing legal education is coming to New Jersey in 2010. Attorneys will be required to participate in 24 hours of qualifying courses over a two-year period. New Court Rule 1:42 outlines the program. Under this rule, responsibility for administration will be vested in a Board on Continuing Legal Education.
Four of the 24 hours must be concentrated in the area of “ethics and professionalism.” It will be up to the board to define this requirement. Given the fact that many lawyers who hold New Jersey licenses practice elsewhere, the board is likely to permit the ethics and professionalism requirement to be satisfied by training related to ethics codes other than the New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct (RPCs). The most likely alternative would be the ABA Model Rules (MRPCs), the code version most people studied in law school and on which the multistate bar exam is based.
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