The Council of Legal Education

CLEO`s flagship program is the Prelaw Summer Institute, a rigorous residential program designed to familiarize and better prepare students for success in law school. The Institute has been held every summer since 1968 in various law schools (and now online). Additional workshops and seminars are offered for high school, college and graduate students interested in pursuing a career in law. Upon enrolling in law school, CLEO Fellows are part of a national network of exceptional and talented lawyers. Click on one of the following course logos to learn more: With few exceptions, all attorneys who actively practice law in California must complete a continuing legal education called Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). The State Bar Association establishes and monitors compliance with MCLE requirements for California licensees. Currently, lawyers are required to complete 25 hours of CME every three years. These hours must include training in legal ethics, jurisdictional issues and bias elimination. In particular, this new implied bias requirement applies to lawyers in the MCLE 3 compliance group, who must report their compliance for the period ending January 31, 2023. At Dickinson Law, we believe that cultural diversity enriches everyone`s educational experience, and we strive to maintain an inclusive community.

We are as committed to welcoming people from different cultures and lifestyles as we prepare them to become the next generation of practitioners in practice. People who have obtained legal training elsewhere can only be admitted to our region if they obtain the certificate of legal studies. However, any professionally qualified person in a common law jurisdiction may be admitted to one of the law schools and receive a certificate of legal training at the end of a six-month course. Subsequently, California State Bar Rule 2.72 relating to MCLE requirements for lawyers was amended effective September 24, 2020 to include this new implied bias training requirement. While all lawyers will continue to be required to complete 25 hours of MVLE every three years as of January 1, 2022, the total number of hours must no longer be less than seven hours as follows: In January 2019, the Board updated the Office of the Prosecutor`s 2017-2022 Strategic Plan to include a goal focused on modifying the current ELCC elimination plan and increasing the number of hours. Welcome to the website of the Commonwealth Caribbean Council for Legal Education, a regional organization that operates law schools in Trinidad and Tobago (Hugh Wooding Law School), Jamaica (Norman Manley Law School) and the Bahamas (Eugene Dupuch Law School). Expand your diversity reach by partnering with CLEO, Inc. Join our consortium of law schools and universities.

Please download the Normal Manley Law School Tutor Job Posting: Lawyers are required to report on their training to the State Bar every three years according to a schedule determined by the first letter of the surname. The State Bar Association verifies compliance with MCLE requirements. To be admitted to these law schools, individuals must have already obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B). Non-UWI LL.B graduates can be admitted to law schools if they pass the annual CLE entrance exam in July. Graduates of the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana are then required to complete a two-year curriculum and practical training at one of the three schools. At the end of this period, a certificate of professional legal training is issued by the CLE. Upon receipt of the Legal Education Certificate, a candidate is fully qualified to practice in the English-speaking Caribbean. Stay connected, reconnect with your other CLEO alumni and connect through our secure and versatile platform. Please visit the USDE website for its recognized extent of accreditation here (www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html?src=more) 321 North Clark Street 21st Floor Chicago, IL 60654-7598 USA Follow us and become a supporter of the CLEO EDGE podcast: anchor.fm/CLEOInc We are both pleased and grateful for the support and contributions of our personal and business sponsors. The Council operates three law schools in our region: Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad – both founded in 1973 – and Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas, founded in 1998.

Brandy Smith is Vice President, Workplace Diversity and General Counsel for Lincoln Financial Group. In this role, she provides strategic leadership to lead the implementation and execution of company-wide initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Smith is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The Council was created to train lawyers who wish to practise in our region of the region (and not in the UK). It was founded a year after the founding of UWI`s Faculty of Law, which has departments on each of the university`s three campuses. The CLE is governed by a Council that meets annually. This board of directors is composed of governments, the judiciary and the private bar association. It is chaired by a President, elected every three years, and an Executive Committee, which meets twice a year. Pre-law programs and services for all pre-law students, available to everyone, regardless of location, through our online courses. COUNCIL ON LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY, INC. IMPACT CLEO welcomes the Franklin Pierce School of Law at the University of New Hampshire as a new consortium member school.

UNHLaw is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive environment for all students, staff, applicants and visitors. We are committed to ensuring that our institution reflects the diversity and excellence for which New York is known. Students at New York Law School are smart, hardworking, and diverse individuals who have the drive and determination to become tomorrow`s leaders and make a difference in the world. At the same time, the California legislature pushed AB 242 and added Section 6070.5 of the Business and Professions Code to require the state bar to adopt rules that include the issue of implicit bias and strategies to reduce bias in its MCLE program for all lawyers. The institutions (programs) listed here have been accredited since October 2019, as announced by the accreditation body. As information on institutions (programs) that received or lost accreditation after this date is available and verified, these institutions (programs) have been added or removed. CLEO Edge Podcast: First Podcast Episode 1 – CLEO CEO, J.C. Polanco, Esq., MBA, sits with Bernarda Villalona, CLEO alumnus and renowned lawyer.

#cleoscholars #cleoedgepodcast The Council for Legal Education was established by an agreement signed in 1971 by Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana. If you have any questions, please email the MCLE program at [email protected].