Continuing legal education. Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as mandatory or minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) or, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, as continuing professional development, consists of professional education for attorneys that takes place after their initial admission to the bar.
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State Bar of Texas. Definition of MCLE Credit. Every active State Bar of Texas member must complete a minimum of 15 hours of accredited CLE during each MCLE compliance year. 3 of these hours, including 1 hour of legal ethics, could be in self study.
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a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages: article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as mandatory or minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) or, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, as continuing professional development, consists of professional education for attorneys that takes place after their initial admission to the bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_legal_education
1 A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches indicated by the lines and the spaces on the staff. 2  alto clef. 3  bass clef. 4  C clef. 5  F clef. 6  G clef. 7  tenor clef.  treble clef.
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bass clef, F clef - a clef that puts the F below middle C on the fourth line of a staff. alto clef, viola clef - a clef that puts middle C on the third line of a staff. C clef - a movable clef that puts middle C on one of the lines of a staff. soprano clef - a clef that puts middle C on the bottom line of the staff. tenor clef - a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns.
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Within the United States, U.S. attorneys in many states and territories must complete certain required CLE in order to maintain their U.S. licenses to practice law. Outside the United States, lawyers in various jurisdictions, such as British Columbia in Canada, must also complete certain required CLE. However, some jurisdictions, such as the District of Columbia and Israel, recommend, but do not require, that attorneys complete CLE.
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clef - a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it. musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians. G clef, treble clef, treble staff - a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff.
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Budget Committee Chair Jerald Beer said the Bar is having a problem from members who take unapproved CLE courses more than 60 days before the end of their CLE reporting period, and then do not request evaluation and award of credit until less than 60 days for the deadline.
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a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb (cubicle, receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle).
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CLE is defined as Continuing Legal Education.