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Accreditation and CLE Rules for New York
The National Academy of Continuing Legal Education is an Accredited NYS CLE Provider.
The NY CLE Board maintains an Accredited Provider directory on their website. You can find us listed on the most recent directory at https://webfiles.nycourts.gov/public/2026-07/06.15.26.ap-list_0.pdf.
Experienced NY are required to take 24 credit hours every 2 years including 4 credit hours of Ethics and 1 credit hour of Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias and 1 credit of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection.
NY attorneys can earn all 24 CLE credit hours with us using our DVDs, Audio CDs, USB Stick, Online, and iOS/Android App courses.
*Beginning on July 1, 2023, experienced attorneys are now required to take at least 1 CLE credit in the category of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in each compliance period. This new requirement applies to all attorneys due to re-register on or after July 1, 2023 (birthday is on or after July 1st). Please note that this does not change the total amount of credits required in your CLE period, the total requirement remains at 24 credits.
Experienced NY attorneys are required to complete their requirement every 2 years by their birthday with a 30 day automatic grace period. Attorneys admitted to practice in even years are due on even years and attorneys admitted in odd years are due in odd years.
New York attorneys must report that they are CLE compliant on their biennial registration form and must retain proof of compliance for a minimum of four years. National Academy of CLE issues a NY CLE Certificate of Attendance for all CLE activities as proof of compliance and we store the certificate in your CLE Account indefinitely.
Newly admitted attorneys must complete 16 CLE credits each year for the first two years following admission to the Bar. These are "transitional" courses and must include 3 Ethics, 6 Skills, and 7 Law Practice Management (LPM) or Professional Practice (PP) credits. Additionally, 1 credit of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection must be completed in either of the first two years.
Newly admitted attorneys must complete their CLE in the following formats:
Law Practice Management, Areas of Professional Practice, and Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection-General:
any approved format, including non-participatory formats such as on-demand audio or video and live broadcast.
Ethics and Professionalism and Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection-Ethics:
traditional live classroom, fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity, such as web conference or teleconference, where questions are permitted during the program.
Skills:
traditional live classroom or fully interactive videoconference only.
Effective January 1, 2026, newly admitted attorneys must complete their Skills credit in a traditional live classroom setting or through a fully interactive videoconference attended in a group setting.
Newly admitted attorneys based in law offices outside of the United States may complete up to 16 credits in any approved format. Any remaining credits must be completed in a format permitted for the applicable credit category.
Newly admitted attorneys with a prorated CLE requirement must complete their credits in a format permitted for the applicable credit category, except that no more than 14 credits may be earned through non-participatory formats, such as on-demand audio or video or live broadcast. For more information about Bridge The Gap CLE formats, click here.
Newly admitted attorneys can complete all 16 required credit hours with us through a combination of our on-demand Professional Practice (PP), Law Practice Management (LPM), and Cybersecurity courses, along with our live Skills and Ethics programs. You can see our options for Bridge the Gap CLE here: Bridge the Gap CLE Options.
On September 25, 2008, then Governor, David Paterson signed into law The Safe Harbor Act, making New York the first state to recognize that young people who were being sexually trafficked were in need of protection not detention.
New York State has continued to support rather than punish trafficking victims as exemplified by the passage of the Survivors of Trafficking Attaining Relief Together (START) Act. This law, the first in the nation, allows victims of both sex and labor trafficking to petition the court to vacate a conviction if the crime was the result of being trafficked.
This session will begin with an overview of human trafficking, including which populations are most vulnerable. We will offer strategies and approaches to help you engage with victims of trafficking, who often exhibit signs of trauma including distrust of the judicial system.
We will discuss what efforts the NYPD is undertaking and the important role of the NYPD Human Trafficking Squad to ensure traffickers are arrested and convicted.
Session participants also will learn about the innovative work of the Brooklyn Human Trafficking Task Force and how to apply their transformative work to your practice.
*This course qualifies as a Transitional course and can be taken by both Experienced and Newly Admitted attorneys in NY.
For information about permissible formats for Newly Admitted attorneys, please click here.
