CLE Accreditation

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The Executive Education office manages Continuing Legal Education ("CLE") accreditation for eligible programs hosted by the Law School. 

If you are hosting a program that you believe meets the state requirements (available on the NY Courts website), please review this detailed Guide to CLE Accreditation at CLS. If, after reviewing the guide, you would like to apply for credit for your participants, please complete this form. 

Note that CLE accreditation for the teaching of credit-bearing courses is handled by Registration Services. Faculty wishing to obtain reports of CLE credits related to teaching can do so in Lawnet. Instructions can be found here.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. 

FAQs

Eligible programs are hosted by the Law School, and organized by student, staff or faculty. 

Please complete this form if you would like to request cle accreditation for your course. You must be a member of the Law School community to use this form. If you are a current student, please sign in using your UNI credentials. If you are a faculty or administration member and would like to submit an application, please email [email protected] before starting to complete the form.
 

Please submit your request at least three weeks before your program. 
 

We can issue New York State CLE credit for approved programs run in-house, and based in New York State. The Law School is not accredited to offer CLE in any other jurisdictions. If you are an out-of-state attorney looking to use credit you received by attending a Columbia Law School program to satisfy your state's requirements, please check your state's CLE guidelines for their reciprocity rule.

We will send an approval email to the organizer with relevant forms, promotional CLE language, and attendance verification requirements.
 

We approve the following formats that meet the requirements:

  1. In-person (traditional live classroom)
  2. Hybrid (in-person/virtual) 
  3. Virtual (live web conference) 
     

Faculty wishing to obtain reports of CLE credits related to teaching Law School classes can do so in Lawnet. Instructions can be found here. If you are having any trouble, please contact [email protected].

You must:

(1) be an attorney who is officially registered for a Law School course; and

(2) complete the course as required by the terms of the registration.

CLE Credit for approved attendance at law school courses shall be for the number of 50-minute classes attended. Attorneys shall obtain from the school an official transcript or other appropriate documentation indicating the name of attorney, name, date and location of course, New York credit hours earned, a breakdown of categories of credit and the attorney’s successful completion of the course. 

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