What is the Fundamentals requirement?
The Fundamentals requirement is a series of courses in basic legal skills required of all Recently Admitted Attorneys who passed the Delaware Bar Examination in 2004 or earlier. An attorney must take three of the courses within four years of admission. Fundamentals of Lawyer-Client Relations is required; the other two may be chosen among: Fundamentals of Civil Litigation, Fundamentals of Will Drafting and Estate Administration, Fundamentals of Family Law, and Fundamentals of Real Estate. At this time the Delaware State Bar Association is the only provider of these courses. Attorneys who passed the Delaware Bar Examination in 2005 or later are not required to complete these courses as they are instead required to attend the mandatory pre-admission conference in order to be sworn in to the Delaware Bar.
