Like any good parent, the Nevada Supreme Court worries about their kids. The legal children of Nevada have been staying up late, they don't follow the rules and many of them have stopped doing their homework.The RJ reports:
The Nevada Supreme Court is working on stringent new rules to ensure that lawyers continue to update their legal education. Justices say there has been an unacceptable trend of non-compliance, with about 15 percent of the state's licensed lawyers not meeting the requirements for annual education updates [1,118 lawyers according to LV Sun].
In an Order issued by the NV Supremes (available here), the Court asks the Board of Continuing Legal Education to increase the fines for noncompliance and implement automatic suspension of licenses lawyers who do not fulfill their CLE obligations after receiving a single notice of delinquency. (Appealing in Nevada)
Is it a real shocker that Nevada's legal children aren't following the rules and satisfying their professional requirements? This blog is full of the repeated unethical and embarrassing antics of inept counsel around the state. Plus, from what we've heard, the CLE requirements are mostly any empty gesture towards the idea of professionalism in the law, with most lawyers simply zoning out for three hours to earn three CLE credits.
CLE is the easiest thing on this planet to do. Pay the money for the online Nevada approved CLE, watch them over lunch breaks, take the 'quiz', sign the paper, and turn it in. Wash, rinse, repeat.
ReplyDeleteIf online is too expensive, pay $200 to the CCBA and go to their offices once every other month for a 2-3 hr CLE.
The only real reason not to do it is because the punishment for not doing so is mild - kind of like speeding outside of Las Vegas city limits.