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The document outlines the purpose and requirements of continuing legal education for lawyers in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. It aims to ensure lawyers keep abreast of law and jurisprudence, maintain ethics, and enhance legal practice standards. Lawyers must complete 30 credit hours every 3 years in topics like legal ethics, trial skills, alternative dispute resolution, and substantive/procedural law updates. Exemptions apply to government officials, judges, law professors, and others not actively practicing law.

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The document outlines the purpose and requirements of continuing legal education for lawyers in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. It aims to ensure lawyers keep abreast of law and jurisprudence, maintain ethics, and enhance legal practice standards. Lawyers must complete 30 credit hours every 3 years in topics like legal ethics, trial skills, alternative dispute resolution, and substantive/procedural law updates. Exemptions apply to government officials, judges, law professors, and others not actively practicing law.

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CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR

LAWYERS
PURPOSE

Continuing legal education is required of members of the


Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to ensure that
throughout their career, they keep abreast with law and
jurisprudence, maintain the ethics of the profession and
enhance the standards of the practice of law.
MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL
EDUCATION
• REQUIREMENTS:
• At least 6 hours shall be devoted to legal etics equivalent to 6 credit
units.
• At least 4 hours shall be devoted to trial and pre-trial skills equivalent to
4 credit units.
• At least 5 hours shall be devoted to alternative dispute resolution
equivalent to 5 credit units.
• At least 9 hours shall be devoted to updates on substantive and
procedural laws, and jurisprudence equivalent to 9 unit credits.
• At least 4 hoursh shall be devoted to legal writing and oral advocacy
equivalent to 4 credit units.
• At least 2 hours shall be devoted to international law and international
law conventions equivalent to 2 credit units.
• The remaining 6 hours shall be devoted to such subjects as may be
prescribed by the MCLE Committee equivalent to 6 credit units.
COMPLIANCE PERIOD
• The compliance shall begin not later than 3 months from
the adoption of these Rules.
• Except for the initial compliance period for members
admitted or readmitted after the establishment of the
program, all compliance periods shall be for 36 months
and shall begin the day after the end of the previous
compliance period.
COMPLIANCE GROUPS

• Compliance Group 1 - Members in the National Capital


Region (NCR) or Metro Manila.
• Compliance Group 2 - Members in Luzon outside NCR.
• Compliance Group 3 - Members in Visayas and
Mindanao.
COMPLIANCE PERIOD OF MEMBERS ADMITTED OR READMITTED
AFTER ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROGRAM

• Members admitted or readmitted after the establishment


of the program shall be permanently assigned to the
appropriate Compliance Group based on their Chapter
membership on the date of admission or readmission.
– Where 4 months or less remain of the initial compliance period
after admission or readmission, the member is not required to
comply with the program requirement for the initial compliance.
– Where more than 4 months remain of the initial compliance
period after admission or readmission, the member shall be
required to complete a number of hours of approved continuing
legal education activities equal to the number of months
remaining in the compliance period in which the member is
admitted or readmitted.
COMPUTATION OF CREDIT UNITS (CU)
• CREDIT UNITS are equivalent to CREDIT HOURS.
• CREDIT UNITS measures compliance with the MCLE
requirement under the Rules, based on the category pf
the lawyer's participation in the MCLE activity.
CLASSES OF CREDIT UNIT

The credit units are either participatory or non-participatory.


COMPUTATION OF CREDIT HOURS

• Credit hours are computed based on actual time spent in


an education activity in hours to the nearest one-quarter
hour reported in decimals.
EXEMPTIONS
• The following members of the Bar are exempted:
• The President and Vice President of the Philippines, the Secretaries
and Undersecretaries of Executive Departments;
• Senators and Members of the House of Representatives;
• The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court,
incumbent and retired members of the judiciary, incumbent members of
the Judicial and Bar Council and incumbent court lawyers covered by
the Philippine Judicial Academy program of continuing judicial
education;
• The Chief State Counsel, Chief State Prosecutor and Assistant
Secretaries of the Department of Justice;
• The Solicitor General and the Assistant Solicitor General;
• The Government Corporate Counsel, Deputy and Assistant
Government Corporate Counsel;
• The Chairmen and Members of the Constitutional Commissions;
• The Ombudsman, the overall Deputy Ombudsman, the Deputy
Ombudsman and the Special Prosecutor of the Office of the
Ombudsman;
• Heads of government agencies exercising quasi-judicial functions;
• Incumbent deans, bar reviewers and professors of law who have
teaching experience for at least 10 years
• The Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and members of the Corps of
Professors and Professional Lecturers of the Philippine Judicial
Academy; and
• Governors and Mayors
• Other parties that are exempted:
• Those who are not in law practice, private or public;
• Those who have retired from law practice with the approval of the IBP
Board of Governors.

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