What are the general Missouri CLE Rules?

What are the general Missouri CLE Rules?

Each lawyer actively practicing law in Missouri, including Senior Counselors who are "EXEMPT" from the payment of bar dues, must complete 15 hours of continuing legal education, including two hours of ethics, during each July 1 - June 30 reporting period and by July 31 make an annual report to The Missouri Bar, except lawyers newly admitted during the July 1 - June 30 reporting year who are exempt from the annual requirements for the July 1 - June 30 reporting year in which they are admitted. Thus, lawyers newly admitted during the July 1, 2009 ? June 30, 2010 reporting year are exempt from the annual requirements for the July 1, 2009 ? June 30, 2010 reporting year. All lawyers admitted or reinstated to The Missouri Bar are required to obtain professionalism, ethics and malpractice prevention credit within 12 months of admission or reinstatement regardless of dues status or whether the lawyer practices law in Missouri or resides in Missouri after admission or reinstatement.

For the purpose of Rule 15, the term "practice of law" is not limited to the private practice of law. Lawyers employed in corporate law departments, including lawyers with a license under Rule 8.105, by bank trust departments, in government legal offices, as judicial law clerks and as law school professors, including law professors authorized under Rule 13.06 to supervise law students in court, are subject to the annual requirements of 15 hours of continuing legal education including two hours of professionalism, ethics or malpractice prevention credit. Retired lawyers who do not hold themselves out as actively practicing and only occasionally render legal advice to family members or friends are not considered to be in the active practice of law for the purpose of Rule 15 and may claim an exemption by filing the Annual Report of Compliance, Form 1 by July 31 of each year.

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