ATTENTION ALL CLE SPONSORS: One very important responsibility of CLE sponsors is to differentiate in advertising between accredited in-person and live remote programming versus recorded on-demand programming.
Sponsors should be knowledgeable about the difference between accredited programs, such as in-person and live remote programming, and those activities which will only count towards self-study credit, such as recorded programs offered in an on-demand format. Attendees rely heavily on the advertisement of program sponsors when determining whether to enroll in a program and will be highly dissatisfied to learn that a program advertised as accredited may only be used towards self-study credit.
- Live Remote: Programs that utilize materials electronically presented live, recorded, or reproduced may be accredited programs. Such programs will be accredited and not considered self-study programs if a qualified instructor is available, either in person or via telephone or other means of communication, to comment and answer questions. Live remote programming must take place on a specified date with a designated start and stop time.
- On-Demand: Lawyers may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year by studying law-related materials, including, but not limited to videotapes and audio presentations. Recorded programming that can be accessed by the viewer at any time and does not have a specified access date with a designated start and stop time is on-demand programming which is not accredited and can only be utilized towards self-study. Such self-study hours may not include ethics or elimination of bias credit.