What Are the CLE Requirements for Florida Attorneys?

Florida Bar members must complete a minimum of 30 CLE credit hours every 3 years.

The requirement sits in Rule 6-10.3 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, as in effect October 1, 2026, and it counts approved continuing legal education activity toward the total.

Members can also earn general credit through pro bono service: 1 credit hour for every hour of pro bono service as defined in the rules, up to 5 credit hours during a 3-year reporting cycle.

The 30 hours include two required blocks: at least 3 credit hours in approved technology courses and at least 5 in ethics, professionalism, substance use disorder or mental health and wellness.

Inside that 5-hour block sits a course every member must take each reporting cycle: the 2-credit-hour Florida Legal Professionalism course, produced by The Florida Bar and approved by the Supreme Court of Florida.

The rule text our research read names those categories; our research did not find a separate elimination-of-bias credit.

Which block a given course fills is a detail to confirm with The Florida Bar.

Florida assigns each member a reporting period, and the rule requires members to report their required credit hours no later than the last day of that assigned period.

Reporting runs through the MyFloridaBar portal.

A member who misses the reporting deadline becomes delinquent under rule 1-3.6 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.

New Florida Bar members must complete a Basic Skills Course Requirement.

Part one is the Practicing with Professionalism course, sponsored by the Bar's Young Lawyers Division (YLD) — The Florida Bar describes Phase 1 as an 8-hour course — and it must be completed no sooner than 12 months before and no later than 12 months after admission.

Part two is 21 credit hours of YLD basic-level substantive courses, completed during the first 3-year CLE cycle.

Members with at least 5 years of continuous non-governmental practice in another jurisdiction can be exempted from the 21 basic-skills hours if they can demonstrate 30 hours of approved CLE within the immediate 3-year period.

The rule provisions our research read set the 30-hour total, the technology and ethics blocks, the professionalism course and the reporting mechanics.

The parts we reviewed do not state caps on live webcasts, on-demand recordings or self-study formats, and they count only approved CLE activity toward the total.

Our research cannot confirm how many of the 30 hours Florida allows online or on demand; format and approval questions belong with The Florida Bar's member CLE pages.

Florida CLE hours do not carry over: credits beyond the 30 a member completes in a reporting cycle cannot be applied to the next cycle.

On exemptions, the rule splits members into two groups.

Inactive Florida Bar members, full-time federal judges and Florida state judges are automatically exempt.

Exemptions for active military service, undue hardship, or non-residents not practising Florida law must be applied for under the rule.

The consequence our research documents is delinquency: a member who does not report the required credit hours by the last day of the assigned reporting period becomes delinquent under rule 1-3.6 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.

Our research did not document the further consequences that follow a delinquency; check The Florida Bar's member resources for the consequences that currently apply.

Rule 6-10.3 was most recently amended April 16, 2026, effective June 15, 2026 (SC2025-1172).

The version in effect as of October 1, 2026 sets the 30-hour, 3-year requirement with the technology and ethics blocks described above.

Because the rule changed recently, confirm the current text with The Florida Bar before you plan a reporting cycle.