Rule 808: Credit

(a)   Credit for Attendance. The number of CLE credit hours assigned to an approved program reflects the maximum number of hours that an attorney can earn by attending the entire program. An attorney can only earn CLE credit hours for actual attendance. No attorney can earn more than eight credit hours in one day of CLE attendance.

(b)   Carryover Credit. An attorney will not receive carryover credit hours under Rule 804(b) unless an application, affidavit, or attendance is submitted to OJA by July 31 or submitted via U.S. mail postmarked by July 31. The application or affidavit must reflect attendance during the compliance period in which the attorney earned the credit hours.

(c)   Credit for Teaching. An attorney can earn up to five CLE credit hours for each 50 minutes spent teaching an approved program. The following provisions apply.

(1)   The attorney must file an application for approval of teaching credit that outlines program content, teaching methodology, and time spent in preparation and instruction.

(2)   In determining the number of CLE credit hours to award, the Board will calculate time spent in preparation and teaching. For example, the Board will award four credit hours to an attorney who spends 150 minutes preparing a program and 50 minutes teaching it. The Board will award one-half credit hour for teaching at least 25 but less than 50 minutes. The Board will not award credit hours for smaller fractional units.

(3)   A repeat presentation will only qualify for additional credit hours for time spent updating the presentation and teaching.

(4)   Because the Board awards CLE teaching credit hours as an incentive to attorneys to benefit the legal profession, instruction must be directed toward an audience composed primarily of attorneys. The Board will not award credit hours for teaching undergraduate, graduate, or law school classes.

(d)   Credit for Authorship. An attorney can earn CLE credit hours for authorship of a legal publication. The following provisions apply.

(1)   An attorney can earn CLE credit hours if the attorney is a named author on a published article, chapter, monograph, or book that contributes substantially to the continuing legal education of the attorney author and other attorneys.

(2)   The attorney must complete an application for approval of authorship credit.

(3)   Publication must occur during the compliance period for which the attorney requests CLE credit hours.

(4)   The Board may award one credit hour for each 50 minutes the attorney spent directly preparing the publication. An article, chapter, monograph, or book directed to a nonattorney audience does not qualify for authorship credit.

(e)   Credit for Law School Course. An attorney can earn CLE credit hours for postgraduate education by enrollment in a course, either for credit or by audit, from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The Board will award one credit hour for each 50 minutes of class attendance.

(f)   Credit for Law Practice Management Program. An attorney can earn no more than two general attendance CLE credit hours toward the annual CLE requirement in any compliance period for attendance at a law practice management program.

(g)   Credit for Attendance Prior to Admittance. An applicant cannot earn CLE credit hours for any CLE program attended before the applicant is admitted to practice law in Kansas.

(h)   Duplicate Attendance. An attorney cannot earn CLE credit hours for attendance at a program the attorney previously attended during the compliance period.

(i)   Self-Study Prohibition. An attorney cannot earn CLE credit hours for a self-study program.

[History: New rule adopted effective July 1, 2011; Am. effective July 1, 2017; Am. effective October 2, 2019; Am. effective July 1, 2020; Rule 806 renumbered to Rule 807 and Am. effective April 2, 2021; Rule 807 renumbered to Rule 808 and Am. effective June 1, 2021; Am. effective July 1, 2022.]