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Accreditation and CLE Rules for New Jersey
The National Academy of Continuing Legal Education is a New Jersey Accredited CLE Provider.
New Jersey attorneys are required to take 24 credit hours every 2 years including 5 credit hours of Ethics and Professionalism, with a minimum of 2 credits of Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias.
New Jersey attorneys can earn all 24 CLE credit hours with us including 5 credit hours of Ethics and Professionalism with a minimum of 2 credit hours of Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias using our DVDs, Audio CDs, USB Stick, Online, iOS/Android App, and Live Webinar courses.
*CLE Rule Update: The New Jersey CLE Board has revoked the Covid exception and reinstated the Live CLE requirement in NJ effective 1/1/2024. Additionally, NJ has amended the CLE Regulations with BCLE Reg. 103:1(n) and expanded the definition of Live Instruction. Our Live Interactive webinars meet this definition of Live CLE in NJ. Therefore all NJ attorneys can satisfy their entire requirement with our DVDs, Audio CDs, USB Stick, Online, iOS/Android App, and Live Webinar courses.
Live Exemption: NJ rule 201:8(a) states that attorneys who reside in, work in, and are licensed in a mandatory CLE jurisdiction that does not require Live CLE are also exempt from Live CLE for NJ. These attorneys can take all 24 credits of their requirement with on-demand courses.
See our NJ Non-Resident Bundles.
Each active New Jersey attorney is permanently assigned to one of two compliance groups for CLE purposes.
Group 1 is attorneys with birthdays in January through June and must complete their CLE by 12/31 every odd numbered year (12/31/2023, 12/31/2025, etc…)
Group 2 is attorneys with birthdays in July through December and must complete their CLE by 12/31 every even numbered year (12/31/2022, 12/31/2024, etc…)
Newly Admitted Attorneys in New Jersey must complete 24 credits of approved CLE in their first full two-year compliance period. Of the 24 credits at least 5 credits must be in Ethics/Professionalism, of which at least 2 must be in Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias.
Additionally, 16 credits must be in any 6 of the following 12 subject areas:
New Jersey Basic Estate Administration,
New Jersey Basic Estate Planning,
New Jersey Civil or Criminal Trial Preparation,
New Jersey Family Law Practice,
New Jersey Real Estate Closing Procedures,
New Jersey Trust and Business Accounting,
New Jersey Landlord/Tenant Practice,
New Jersey Municipal Court Practice,
New Jersey Administrative Law,
New Jersey Labor and Employment Law,
New Jersey Worker's Compensation Law,
and New Jersey Law Office Management.
A minimum of one credit must be taken in New Jersey attorney trust & business accounting fundamentals. NJ Newly Admitted Attorneys can satisfy all of their credit hours with us using our DVDs, Audio CDs, USB Stick, Online, iOS/Android App, and Live Webinar courses.
Supreme Court of New Jersey Board on Continuing Legal Education
PO Box 965
Trenton, NJ 08625-0965
Phone: (609) 815-2930 https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/cle
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General Credits
1.1
$50
LIVE WEBINAR
July 25
Thursday, July 25, 2024
3:00PM - 4:00PM Eastern Time (EDT)
About This Course
This CLE course will review the evidentiary issues in the Alex Murdaugh case. In this case, a South Carolina jury convicted Murdaugh of murdering his wife and son. The prosecution had alleged that the defendant killed his family members for two reasons, primarily. First, the People claimed that the defendant killed his son, Paul, because Paul was the alleged wrongdoer (along with Alex, due to negligent entrustment) in litigation resulting from Paul’s driving the family boat while drunk, killing Mallory Beach, a passenger on the boat. If Paul died, the defendant likely surmised that, the litigation could have had a more limited effect on Alex’s liability. And second, the People asserted that the defendant killed his wife, Maggie, because he was hiding his financial crimes from his wife—the very crimes would become evident shortly in litigation. The course will highlight the evidence as well as guilty verdicts, pleas, and sentences Murdaugh received in the state murder and financial fraud cases (2023) and the federal financial crime case (2024).
The evidentiary issues concern:
• Circumstantial and scientific evidence, and expert testimony. The court allowed circumstantial evidence of the murder, consisting of the crime scene, which contained the location of the bodies in the gun room at Alex’s home, to show how Murdaugh could have murdered the two. Also present was evidence of the locations of where police found Maggie and Paul’s cell phones as well as their contents to show circumstantially that Alex was the killer. For instance, video from Alex’s cell phone, taken earlier on the day of the murder at the location of the murders, showed Alex there—at the dog kennel. An expert testified to the white t-shirt that Alex wore was fresh after the murders. A housekeeper testified that she saw Alex earlier that day wearing different clothes, which police never found. Police later found a large blue rain jacket, which they seized from Murdaugh’s parents’ house, which tested positive for gunshot residue. Experts included those in the areas of ballistics, DNA, and pathology.
• Character evidence—prior bad acts. The trial court admitted Alex’s prior financial crimes as well as evidence in the Mallory Beach boating matter to show the defendant’s motive and intent in committing the murders in the murder case.
• Hearsay evidence and admissions and impeachment by prior inconsistent statements. Alex admitted that he lied to investigators at the scene, when he told them that he had not been at the dog kennels earlier that day, and Paul’s cell phone video, which showed the defendant’s presence at the kennels that day, which ultimately impeached Murdaugh.
General Credits
1.1
$50
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