CLE Seminar Information

The ARDC is an Accredited CLE Provider (see "Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission") with the Illinois MCLE Board.  These recorded webcasts have been approved for general MCLE credit in Illinois by the Illinois MCLE Board ("MCLE credit" - see S.Ct.Rule 794(a)) and have also been approved for professional responsibility/legal ethics credit ("PCLE credit" - see S.Ct.Rule S.Ct.Rule 794(d)) by the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

FREE CLE WEBCASTS (on-demand recordings)

• New Emerging Trends in Legal Ethics and Professionalism: Today and in the Future, Recorded Webinar (posted Nov. 22, 2011)
  (2 Hrs. MCLE/PCLE Credit in Illinois) CLICK HERE
   

• New Getting and Keeping Good Clients, Recorded Webinar (posted Sept. 1, 2011)
  (1 Hr. MCLE/PCLE Credit in Illinois*) CLICK HERE
  * accredited for 0.5 hrs. of general and ethics in Iowa
   

• New Identifying and Resolving Conflicts of Interest, Recorded Webinar (posted Sept. 1., 2011)
  (1 Hr. MCLE/PCLE Credit in Illinois) CLICK HERE
   

• New The Ethical Requirements of Handling Trust Funds Under Rule 1.15 and IOLTA Basics, Recorded Webinar (posted July 1, 2011)
  (1 Hr. MCLE/PCLE Credit in Illinois)  CLICK HERE
   

• New Law Practice Transitions: The Ethical Obligations When Selling, Closing or Leaving a Law Practice,  Recorded Webinar (April 2011)
  (2 Hrs. MCLE/PCLE Credit in Illinois)  CLICK HERE

These recorded webcasts are available 24/7.  Once you have registered, you will be able to access the program and accompanying materials as may times as you wish but you may claim CLE credit for only one viewing. 

PLEASE NOTE (Lawyers in the N-Z compliance group):  If you have registered for and viewed any of the above webcasts on or before June 30, 2011, you may claim CLE credit for it on your compliance report for the July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 MCLE Reporting Period.   If you have trouble printing out a certificate on or before June 30, you may still claim credit for completing the webcast on your compliance report to the MCLE Board.   The certificate of attendance issued at the completion of the webcast evidences your attendance and is to be maintained by you in your CLE records.  Do not send certificates of attendance to the MCLE Board.    Please email seminars@iardc.org to request a copy of a certificate or to verify attendance.  

Providers do not report individual attorney attendance hours to the MCLE Board and the MCLE Board does not track the CLE activity of individual attorneys.

Illinois attorneys are required to track their CLE credit earned.

LIST OF ACCREDITED ARDC SEMINARS (2006-2011)

If you need another copy of a certificate of attendance for any ARDC-sponsored seminar (see List of Accredited ARDC Seminars above), please send an email to seminars@iardc.org.  Please include your name, attorney I.D.#, date of seminar attended, and an email address.