Frequently Asked Questions

In 1985, Kansas required lawyers to participate in formal continuing legal education. It is the responsibility of the Kansas CLE Board to administer the rules pertaining to the continuing education of lawyers. Kansas CLE's duties also include updating the requirements and rules as necessary, monitoring each attorney's compliance with the requirements, notifying attorneys of CLE status, accrediting courses and working with providers of CLE.

It is essential to the public and the legal profession that attorneys admitted to practice law in Kansas maintain and increase their professional competence by continuing their legal education. These rules establish minimum requirements for continuing legal education necessary to remain authorized to practice law in this state.

An attorney that is registered as active must complete 12 hours of CLE, including at least 2 hours of ethics and professionalism, by June 30, of each compliance period. All hours may be attended online or in-person. If attending online programs, please check to see if the hours have been approved in Kansas by reviewing the programs on the Course Search on this website.

All attorneys that are registered with an active law license.

CLE fees are combined with the Annual Registration fee with the Attorney Registration office. The annual fee must be paid through the Attorney Registration portal. (See Supreme Court Rule 206.) All fees must be paid ONLINE by June 30. Late fee will be assessed July 1. Cash, checks, and money orders will not be accepted. YOU WILL NOT PAY THE CLE ANNUAL FEE THROUGH THE KANSAS CLE PORTAL. The annual registration period will open by June 1. Questions regarding the annual registration fee should be directed to the Attorney Registration office at registration@kscourts.org.

No. Because CLE rules vary from state-to-state, Kansas CLE does not have reciprocity with any other state. You should submit your attendance form, or request for approval, for each program to the Kansas CLE office throughout the compliance period.

Kansas CLE has received a number of inquiries about possibly approving CLE credit for programs related to political issues. All programs that are submitted to Kansas CLE for CLE credit are considered under the same guidelines and must focus on substantive legal issues. Those that deal with such matters as constitutional law, rule of law, and case law will be considered for general CLE credit. Conversely, in keeping with Kansas CLE's long held position not to support or oppose any political position, all events in which the focus is political advocacy will be denied CLE credit.

You can take all your required hours as ethics if you choose to do so. However, please remember that ethics and professionalism credit hours in excess of the 2-hour requirement will be carried forward as general attendance credit hours NOT as ethics and professionalism credit.

All CLE hours, including the 2 hour ethics and professionalism requirement, must be attended by June 30 each compliance period. These hours should be filed within 30 days of the attendance of an approved program. To avoid any penalties, hours attended between July 1 and June 30, MUST BE postmarked no later than July 31 following the end of the compliance period.

Attorneys and Providers that have not properly filed the proper attendance by July 31, will be assessed a noncompliance fee of $75. This fee should be paid online through the MyKSCLE portal or submit a check made payable to Kansas CLE. When making the payment, please reference the course attended, your full name and Kansas Supreme Court number.

Attorneys that have not completed all hours by June 30, may attend programming in July and August to complete their requirement for the previous compliance period. Attorneys will be assessed a noncompliance fee of $75. This fee will be assessed the first week in August. It should be paid online by logging in to your MyKSCLE account, or submitting a check via US Mail. We recommend using the online service for immediate confirmation that the fee has been paid. If attending a program online to complete the deficiency, please make sure the provider has reported your hours by the end of August. If you need to submit payment in the form of a check or money order, it should be made payable to Kansas CLE, and should be submitted with a copy of the documentation from the program(s) that will complete the deficiency.

A notice is sent to each attorney that has not met the CLE requirements (fees and/or hours) the first week in August. The attorney has 30 days from the date the certified is mailed to correct the deficiency. If the attorney does not complete the requirements by that time, they will be suspended shortly thereafter, and unable to practice law until the reinstatement order has been signed and filed with the Kansas Supreme Court. Paying your fees and/or completing the hours does NOT constitute reinstatement. You MUST allow processing time for the order to be signed by the Court. You are only reinstated once the order has been filed with the Court.

Please note: Hours and fees accrue for each year you are on suspended status, even if you were on inactive status at the time of the suspension. If you think you will not need your Kansas license in the future, Kansas CLE strongly encourages attorneys in this situation to complete the reinstatement process as quickly as possible to avoid the build up of hours and fees over the coming years.

The fees must be accompanied by a written request for reinstatement to active status, along with proof of attendance of the necessary hours and/or fees. The fees should not be mailed in until the hours are completed. Fees received without the required paperwork will be returned to the address on the check or money order without processing. There is also paperwork and fees due to the Kansas Supreme Court when an attorney is suspended. Please contact the Attorney Registration office to ascertain their requirements for reinstatement via email at registration@kscourts.org or by telephone at 785/296-8409. Paying your fees and/or completing the hours does NOT constitute reinstatement. You MUST allow processing time for the order to be signed by the Court. You are only reinstated once the order has been filed with the Court.

There are no extensions.

If an active practitioner completes CLE credit hours at approved programs during a compliance period exceeding the number of hours required, and the practitioner complies with the requirements of Rule 806, the practitioner may carry forward to the next compliance period up to 10 unused general attendance credit hours from the compliance period during which the credit hours were earned. However, ethics and professionalism credit hours in excess of the 2-hour requirement may be carried forward as general attendance credit hours but not as ethics and professionalism credit. An attorney is required to take 2 hours of ethics each compliance period. CLE credit hours approved for teaching, authorship, or law practice management credit do not qualify for carryover credit.

Once you have completed the paperwork to change your name with your official name on the roll of attorneys in the Attorney Registration office, our office will be notified and the change will then be made to your CLE file. Please contact the Attorney Registration office to ascertain the requirements in their office. The direct phone number is 785/296-8409, or email at registration@kscourts.org.

An attorney employed full time outside the United States for a minimum of 8 months during the compliance period may, upon written request and preapproval, complete the annual CLE requirement by prerecorded programming.

Status changes to inactive or retired within the current licensing period should be submitted online through the Attorney Registration Portal: https://registration kard.kscourts.gov

To be relieved of the CLE requirement for the current year and pay the lower fee for inactive or no fee for retired status for the next licensing period, your request must be submitted no later than June 30.

You can also change to inactive or retired status when you complete your annual registration online. The change will not be effective until July 1, and you will still be required to complete the annual CLE requirement for the current year by June 30 if you are currently on active status. Status changes submitted online when registering must be completed by June 30. If you complete your annual registration online after June 30, you will have to pay the registration fee and late fee based on your status as of July 1.

See the Resources page on the Attorney Registration portal for additional information regarding status change procedures.

To change your status to active or reinstate from a suspension, contact the Attorney Registration office (registration@kscourts.org) for instructions and forms to complete. Be sure to include your bar number in your request. All fees will be paid online through the Attorney Registration Portal. Please be aware that requests which are submitted when annual registration is open will require additional time for processing.

The list of approved programming will show any programs that have been approved for Kansas CLE credit. Attorneys can attend programs anywhere in the world but an application for approval of CLE activity, must be submitted by the provider (when applicable) or an attorney.

If a live, in-person, program is listed as approved on our calendar of approved programming, the provider has received an affidavit for you to complete. If the program is held within the state of Kansas, or is a webinar (live or prerecorded) or teleconference, the provider will submit your attendance to our office to be registered in your file. Please allow 30 days for this to be reflected on your MyKSCLE account.

If the program was attended outside the state of Kansas, it is your responsibility to get the affidavit from the provider and mail it in to our office within 30 days of the program.

If the program was pre-recorded, or "on-demand," the provider is required to not only apply for the program, but also submit your attendance to our office within 30 days.

Attorneys can attend programs anywhere in the world but an application for approval of CLE activity must be submitted by the provider or an attorney per the applicable Rule.

Each active lawyer shall maintain records sufficient to establish compliance with the CLE requirement in the event of a dispute with the final compliance report. Kansas CLE recommends maintaining CLE records for at least three (3) years. The MyKSCLE account access is intended to assist in tracking of courses and credits.

If you are on inactive status, you are not required to submit hours to our office during that time. However, if you do attend CLE hours during this time, it is a good idea to file those hours with our office and also keep copies of those hours in your permanent file. If you decide to change back to active status, you will need to supply that information to the Attorney Registration office.

Attorneys may receive up to five (5) hours of teaching credit for each one (1) hour they teach. Instruction must be directed toward an audience composed primarily of attorneys. There is a formula that takes into consideration your preparation time and the actual teaching time. By answering the questions properly on the application for approval of teaching credit, Kansas CLE staff will calculate the hours awarded and send you an affidavit to sign and return. Teaching credit cannot be carried forward.

Attendance spent in a classroom could be considered for CLE credit. To apply, complete the application for approval of CLE activity - traditional, and attach a copy of the syllabus noting the times and dates of the classes.

Because teaching credit is awarded as an incentive to attorneys to benefit the legal profession, instruction must be directed toward an audience composed primarily of attorneys. Credit will not be awarded for teaching undergraduate, graduate, or law school classes.

One-half hour is the least amount of credit that can be recorded. 25 minutes = 1/2 hour of CLE credit. Hours are rounded down to the nearest half hour. Other fractions of hours will not be recognized.

Add up the total number of minutes attended and divide by 50 minutes. This will give you the number of hours. Per Kansas Supreme Court Rules, Kansas CLE will round down to the nearest 1/2 hour. For instance, 260 minutes divided by 50 minutes = 5.2 hours. This would be 5 hours of CLE credit in Kansas.

Kansas CLE rules allow credit for in-house programming. Invitation-only programs for clients and other guests are considered in-house. Since these programs are not open to the general attorney public, in-house programming will not appear on our list of approved courses. Please make sure to answer this question on the application form so that the program may be categorized correctly in our system.

The program must meet the standards required for approval as continuing legal education under the rules governing CLE in Kansas.

For live programs, including live webinars, you may complete the application for approval of CLE activity. There is no fee for applying for credit. Make sure all the required sections are completed and attach a copy of the timed agenda, highlighting the sessions you attended, and submit the information to the Kansas CLE office using the instructions on the application form. Allow up three weeks for processing.

Applications for prerecorded programming must be submitted by the provider.

Kansas CLE recommends paying the noncompliance fee online by logging in to your MyKSCLE account, or submitting a check via US Mail. The online service offers immediate confirmation that the fee has been paid, while US Mail could experience a delay in reaching our office. If you need to submit payment in the form of a check or money order, it should be made payable to Kansas CLE, and should be submitted with a copy of the documentation from the program(s) that will complete the deficiency. Please make sure the Kansas Supreme Court number is listed with the check and that the check is submitted with the necessary paperwork for each attorney.

If the credit is not listed on your online transcript, and it has been more than 30 days since you submitted the paperwork, and it is still within the current compliance period filing deadline, make sure the form is completed in its entirety (name, Supreme Court number, number of hours attended, etc.) and resubmit the form to Kansas CLE at cleinfo@kscourts.org.

If you are anticipating a military deployment, it is imperative that you notify Attorney Registration and Kansas CLE prior to deployment. You can be placed on a military exemption with the CLE office during your deployment. During this time you are not required to pay the annual CLE fee or submit CLE hours. To gain the military exemption, please submit a letter to our office requesting the exemption along with a copy of your deployment papers. Attorneys who are active duty military, not deployed, and are actively licensed in Kansas, are required to report hours and pay the annual CLE fees.

The provider will report your attendance for an approved course. Please allow 30 days for the credit to show on your transcript. Please contact the provider if the hours are not reflected within 30 days. DO NOT send certificates to the Kansas CLE office.

Please log in to your Attorney Registration portal account ( (https://registration-kard.kscourts.gov ) to change your address as soon as possible. Once the address change is received, the change will not appear on your CLE online account immediately. CLE staff will be notified of the change by Attorney Registration and upload the new address. Please allow 2 business days before the address change is reflected on your MyKSCLE account. Staff cannot make changes to your address via phone.

Contact our office at 785-368-8201. Please have your Kansas Supreme Court number available before calling.

No. Our offices are separate and have separate requirements. Once you have completed your hours, your online transcript (MyKSCLE account) will reflect compliance with our office.

If you have created a provider portal log in, you may submit payments online for application fees. Credit card payments will not be accepted via mail, or over the phone or in-person. If you already have a provider portal in Kansas, you will use the same log in and location as you usually do to report hours. Make sure to attach the receipt once you have processed a payment.

If the program is open to the general attorney public, and you are not charging a fee, the application fee may be waived upon request. Please note the request for a waiver in a cover letter/email with the application and agenda.

ONLY if you have made a payment online, your organization may submit applications via email to kscle@kscourts.org. You should attach ONE pdf that includes the application for approval, the same supplemental materials required on all applications (advertising and detailed timed agenda), and a copy of the receipt for the application fee(s). PLEASE, only one program title per email.

Please also help us by including the following in the subject line of each email: “APP,” Name of Organization (Acronym is fine), Program title (brief), Date of Program. Do not send anything other than this information (i.e., course materials) unless we request the information. If you cannot pay the application fee online, do NOT email the application. You will need to send the application with a check or money order to the Kansas CLE street address.

Course approval may be granted for courses through an application process in which CLE programs are reviewed on a course-by-course basis. To apply for approval of a live webcast or teleconference (one attorney-one computer/phone), a provider may file an Application for Approval of Live Programming. You will note either online or telephone in the "location" field. The form must be accompanied by a $25 application fee. Providers are responsible for reporting the the attendance electronically using the online attendance reporting function on our website within 30 days of attendance.

Course approval is granted for courses through an application process in which CLE programs are approved on a course-by-course basis. To apply for single course approval a provider may file an Application for Approval of CLE Live Programming along with a detailed course agenda, advertising information, and a $25 application fee.

Course approval is granted for courses through an application process in which CLE programs are approved on a course-by-course basis. To apply for approval of a program that is pre-recorded, a provider may file an Application for Approval of Prerecorded Courses. The form must be accompanied by a $100 application fee. This approval may be granted for up to one year.

Because courses are calculated on a 50-minute hour, and we round down to the nearest half hour, courses must be a minimum of (25) minutes in length to be considered for course approval.

If you are hosting a program within the state of Kansas, you should gather the original, completed, affidavits and return them to the Kansas CLE office in one envelope/one email (cleinfo@kscourts.org). If you have created an account, you may also report the credits by logging in to the Online Attendance Reporting page under providers. All hours must be reported within 30 days of the program. If you are hosting a program outside the state of Kansas, you are required to give the participants needing Kansas credit the affidavit for the program so that they can return the original to our office within 30 days of the program.

Kansas CLE has received a number of inquiries about approval of CLE credit for programs related to political issues. All programs that are submitted to Kansas CLE for CLE credit are considered under the same guidelines and must focus on substantive legal issues. Those that deal with such matters as constitutional law, rule of law, and case law will be considered for general CLE credit. Conversely, in keeping with Kansas CLE's long held position not to support or oppose any political position, all events in which the focus is political advocacy will be denied CLE credit.

Each state has their own accreditation requirements. If you are applying for credit in multiple states, the CLEreg MCLE Guide is a resource that may be beneficial to you. This is a subscription service offered by CLEreg, the Continuing Legal Education Regulators Association. Information in “The Guide” is updated and managed by the CLE offices in each state. It is the official resource for jurisdictional MCLE Information. The information on the official CLEreg MCLE Guide can be found here: https://www.clereg.org/mcle-guide.

Distance learning programming means CLE programming accessed solely by an individual attorney, including: teleconference, internet-based conference, audiotape, videotape, CD, podcast, DVD, or another format approved by Kansas CLE and defined in its Guidelines for Distance Learning. Utilizing these methods in a classroom setting changes the accreditation to live programming.

You may access Kansas approved courses page for a listing of Prerecorded Programs.

There is no cap on prerecorded programming. However, you should make sure the provider has received CLE credit in Kansas prior to registering for a prerecorded program. Programs listed on the Course Search on this website are already approved.

You are limited to 8 hours of credit in one day. However, all 12 hours, including ethics, can be through an APPROVED, live, streaming, online or telephone course.

Yes, as long as the program you have chosen is approved for ethics and professionalism in Kansas. Please carefully review the actual credits approved on the Kansas CLE Course Search. Just because the provider has used "ethics" in the title of the program, does not guarantee ethics credit in Kansas.

Complete the appropriate application for approval. In the location field, you will indicate if it was an online or telephone program.

Yes.

If the provider has received approval from Kansas CLE, the provider is required to file your attendance electronically to our office within 30 days of the program. Attendance certificates are not accepted by the attendee or the provider. If it has been longer than 30 days since you attended, and the hours are still not reflected on your online transcript, please contact the provider immediately to find out why there is a delay in reporting your credits.

From the Approved Courses page on this website, you may search for prerecorded courses in the second box and live distance learning programs in the first box. On the course results page, click the course title to view the contact information for the course provider. Please contact the provider or visit their webpage to register for the course or access the program.

Internet, Live Webcasts, Podcasts and Telephone Seminars are just a few of the delivery options eligible for Kansas CLE credit.

No. For a program to be approved for CLE in Kansas, it must meet the course guidelines for distance learning programming, including verification of the attorney's attendance.

Podcasting is a method of electronically distributing multimedia files, such as audio (or video) programs for playback on mobile devices such as an iPod or mp3 player or on a personal computer.

In an effort to assist in the use of common language, the National Association of CLE Regulators, (CLEreg) maintains a working list of Distance Learning Terms and Definitions.

MyKSCLE is a free online resource that allows you to review your current CLE transcript, pay CLE noncompliance fees, and monitor your compliance with the annual CLE requirement. Your MyKSCLE account is securely password protected and is updated each day.

Registration requires you to enter your Lawyer ID (Kansas Supreme Court) number and zip code associated with your file. You will then confirm your contact information and provide your email address and a password. It takes about 30 seconds. Click here to create your account.

This may mean you have already registered and previously created an account. Try logging into MyKSCLE with your email address and password. If you are unsure of, or forgot, your password, click the password reset link to reset your MyKSCLE account.

From the homepage, enter your email address and password. Please note that usernames and passwords are case sensitive. Your email address must be valid as it will be used to send confirmation emails.

Click password reset link. You will be prompted to enter your Kansas Supreme Court number (Lawyer ID) and zip code associated with your CLE account. If you receive an error message, it is possible a different zip code is associated with your MyKSCLE account. Please contact the office if you have any questions.

To access your account, log in with the existing email address used to register. Once logged in, choose the Edit Profile link to modify your information. Please remember this is not the same as changing your contact information in our system. This is only for your MyKSCLE log in. If this change needs to be made to your contact information as well, you will need to complete the change of address form in your Attorney Registration portal.

You may opt to reset your MyKSCLE account by choosing the reset password link on the homepage. To begin, enter your Lawyer ID number (Supreme Court number) and zip code. At the profile screen, you may edit the email and password for future access.

If you have followed the instructions in these Frequently Asked Questions, refreshed your browser, and still experience difficulty logging in, call the office at (785) 368-8201.

First, please double check your login and password and try again. If you are still not accessing your Law Firm Services account, make sure you are logging in through the Law Firm Services Page and not the MyKSCLE page. MyKSCLE accounts are established for individual attorney. Law Firm Services should be accessed here: https://www.kscle.gov/firm-services

If you continue to experience difficulties, please contact our office.

No. Accounts are currently created for use by only one primary contact. A username and password is assigned to the primary contact and is the only way the account may be accessed.

Occasionally you may need to update the list of lawyers in your account database. To make changes, log in and select the "Add/Update Lawyer Information" option on the Law Firm Services homepage.

To ADD a new lawyer record, select ADD from the Action options, enter the attorney ID number and their primary zip code and click continue.

To DELETE a lawyer record, select DELETE from the Action options, enter the attorney ID number and click continue.

Once you log in to your account, you will see links on the left hand side of the page for you to utilize the different aspects of the program. The second link or tab is called "Update Profile". If you click on that, it will take you into your account profile page and this is where you change your profile information; including email log in, password, etc.

KSCLE provides an "opt out" for lawyers who do not wish to have their information posted online. Lawyer records listed with "Data Unavailable" must "opt in" for record information to show in the report. Lawyers may opt in for online services by first creating a MyKSCLE account. Once the MyKSCLE account has been created, the lawyer may be added to your list of attorneys in Law Firm Services.

Lawyers who meet their CLE requirement with credits completed after a deadline are subject to late fees. Payment of any assessed CLE fees is considered a condition of CLE compliance.

No. At this time, we do not have the capability for individual attorneys to enter their continuing education hours. Please continue to mail affiavits to our office for those programs outside of the state of Kansas. Programs held in-state, or through distance learning methods, are reported by the provider within 30 days of the program.