RULE ON MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION Rule 208.3. MCLE Requirements and Exemptions

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Rule 208.3. MCLE Requirements and Exemptions

(A) Requirements.

(1) All lawyers with an active license to practice law in the Virgin Islands shall be required to earn at least 24 MCLE credit hours during the reporting period. For purposes of this Rule only, a lawyer who is suspended from the practice of law for any reason shall nevertheless be deemed active for purposes the MCLE requirement.
(2) As part of the required 24 Credit Hours referenced in Rule 208.3(A)(1), lawyers must earn Credit Hours in each of the following Specialized Areas during the reporting period:

(a) Ethics and Professionalism Programming (at least four Credit Hours);
(b) Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Programming (at least one Credit Hour);
(c) Technology Programming (at least two Credit Hours); and
(d) Virgin Islands Law Programming (at least four Credit Hours).

(3) Only credit hours earned by a lawyer during the reporting period will satisfy the MCLE requirements for that reporting period; provided, however, that

(a) The Virgin Islands Bar Association may establish regulations allowing the MCLE requirements to be satisfied, in whole or in part, by the carryover of Credit Hours from the immediate prior reporting period; and
(b) Newly admitted attorneys may apply credit hours accumulated from the start of the reporting period, but prior to their admission to the Virgin Islands Bar, towards their obligations for the current

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