Can I continue to practice law if I don’t complete 3 credit hours of MCPE by December 31, 2010?
Yes. You may practice law unless or until you have been administratively suspended. Active attorneys who certify on their attorney registration statement for 2011 that they have not completed 3 MCPE credit hours during the 2010 calendar year: a) Will be sent a certified notice of noncompliance within 60 days following the registration filing deadline. b) Within 15 days from the date the certified notice was mailed, attorneys receiving the notice may submit evidence to the bar that they have subsequently completed the required MCPE credit hours (a reporting form will be available online), or that the notice of noncompliance was issued to them erroneously. c) If an attorney fails to prove that he or she has subsequently completed the required MCPE credit hours during those 15 days, the attorney will be automatically suspended from practicing law.
