“Me love you long time”: More FREE CLE and an “Uneasy Rider” sues BMW.

Seems like a long time since I last posted links for free continuing legal education programs. But despite the lull, the number of daily blog views for “Free CLE” suggests a need still exists. What with young, underemployed lawyers impossibly servicing law school tuition debts approaching $200,000 – – who can afford $50 to $179 [...]

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No pepper-spray either with Free Elder Law Webinars for CLE credit.

Additional year-end CLE possibilities are provided below for the remaining procrastinators still short of year-end continuing legal education credit hours. I picked up 1.5 credit hours this week and didn’t have to risk pepper spray-by-shopper amongst the holiday crowds. I attended the Webinar, “Guardian Accountability and Monitoring: Where Do We Stand?” presented under the auspices [...]

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Free legal malpractice prevention CLE.

Here’s that word we like again, “Free,” as in free continuing legal education. With news today about yet another ticked-off financially struggling law school alum, it’s time to rearrange the stuff collected in the ‘goodie closet’ and share some more free CLE. As for that disgruntled law school graduate, see “A Recent Law Grad’s Attempt [...]

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“Why buy the cow?” More online Free CLE.

Why buy the cow when you can get all the free CLE you want? OK, it’s a misapplied idiomatic expression, but you get the idea. It’s dumb to pay for continuing legal education when you can get it for free. And then there’s this, the quality of most CLE being what it is, CLE long [...]

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June 30th CLE procrastinators: Free CLE on Chapter 7 BK.

Unlike Punxsutawney Phil who sees his shadow and gets 6 more weeks of winter, when June 30th rolls around for fiscal year compliance CLE procrastinators, there’s no 6-week extension whether they see their shadow or not. So to help those “I’ll do it mañana“ types, the Practising Law Institute (PLI) has available on its site, “On-Demand [...]

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QUICK TAKE RUMINATIONS & FREE CLE “ETHICS OF CLOUD COMPUTING.”

I never worry about what to blog about. If anything, it’s the opposite. If I had the time, I would truly be the incontinent inscriber. I just can’t keep up with all the ideas, all the ruminations running through my head. As a matter of fact, since college when I first read, recited, and memorized [...]

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At least there’s “a free lunch” through law school-provided Free CLE.

Well, the third anniversary of “The Irreverent Lawyer” is next week. And as an early commemoration for those besieged, bereft and bewildered lawyers, especially the young ones still looking for work, here are additional opportunities for free online continuing legal education. I especially thought it apropos to feature freebies from law schools since I’ve been [...]

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Free Online Ethics Continuing Legal Education.

It’s time for another FREE online CLE Update for lawyers looking to save a buck or two or three. The links are provided below along with the usual caveat concerning quality and continued availability or as Elton John famously said,“Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player.” First are the always scarce ethics courses. From [...]

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General online learning can provide another creative way to free CLE.

Granted, approval from your jurisdiction will be required to obtain credit. But there’s a lot of upside to the following creative approach to getting free continuing legal education through non traditional CLE study in Law or Philosophy. The Internet has made widely available a treasure trove of free high-quality online academic video lectures to the [...]

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Who’s making money from MCLE?

Years ago in California, an adjunct law professor I met recalled a story he swore was true. He’d been to a house party where it seemed every other person he met there was a lawyer. By the time, he’d met a woman who was herself, a lawyer, and who had then introduced her son and [...]

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