If an attorney earns more than the required number of MCLE hours in a year, could those extra hours be carried forward and counted towards subsequent years’ MCLE requirements?
Yes. An attorney who earns more than ten hours of MCLE would be permitted carry up to eight excess hours forward, and apply them to the MCLE requirement for the following year (but not subsequent years). An attorney would not be able to use hours carried over from a previous year to satisfy his or her obligation to undertake two hours of MCLE devoted to professionalism.
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