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Accreditation and CLE Rules for New York
Courses purchased through UnitedCLE.com are provided and fully accredited by The National Academy of Continuing Legal Education, an Accredited NYS CLE Provider.
The NY CLE Board maintains an Accredited Provider directory on their website. You can find National Academy of Continuing
Legal Education listed on the most recent directory at https://webfiles.nycourts.gov/public/2026-07/06.15.26.ap-list_0.pdf.
Experienced NY are required to take 24 credit hours every 2 years including 4 credit hours of Ethics and 1 credit hour of Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias and 1 credit of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection.
NY attorneys can earn all 24 CLE credit hours with us using our Online & iOS/Android App courses.
*Beginning on July 1, 2023, experienced attorneys are now required to take at least 1 CLE credit in the category of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in each compliance period. This new requirement applies to all attorneys due to re-register on or after July 1, 2023 (birthday is on or after July 1st). Please note that this does not change the total amount of credits required in your CLE period, the total requirement remains at 24 credits.
Experienced NY attorneys are required to complete their requirement every 2 years by their birthday with a 30 day automatic grace period. Attorneys admitted to practice in even years are due on even years and attorneys admitted in odd years are due in odd years.
New York attorneys must report that they are CLE compliant on their biennial registration form and must retain proof of compliance for a minimum of four years. National Academy of CLE issues a NY CLE Certificate of Attendance for all CLE activities as proof of compliance and we store the certificate in your CLE Account indefinitely.
Newly admitted attorneys must complete 16 CLE credits each year for the first two years following admission to the Bar. These are "transitional" courses and must include 3 Ethics, 6 Skills, and 7 Law Practice Management (LPM) or Professional Practice (PP) credits. Additionally, 1 credit of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection must be completed in either of the first two years.
Newly admitted attorneys must complete their CLE in the following formats:
Law Practice Management, Areas of Professional Practice, and Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection-General:
any approved format, including non-participatory formats such as on-demand audio or video and live broadcast.
Ethics and Professionalism and Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection-Ethics:
traditional live classroom, fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity, such as web conference or teleconference, where questions are permitted during the program.
Skills:
traditional live classroom or fully interactive videoconference only.
Effective January 1, 2026, newly admitted attorneys must complete their Skills credit in a traditional live classroom setting or through a fully interactive videoconference attended in a group setting.
Newly admitted attorneys based in law offices outside of the United States may complete up to 16 credits in any approved format. Any remaining credits must be completed in a format permitted for the applicable credit category.
Newly admitted attorneys with a prorated CLE requirement must complete their credits in a format permitted for the applicable credit category, except that no more than 14 credits may be earned through non-participatory formats, such as on-demand audio or video or live broadcast. For more information about Bridge The Gap CLE formats, click here.
Newly admitted attorneys can complete all 16 required credit hours with us through a combination of our on-demand Professional Practice (PP), Law Practice Management (LPM), and Cybersecurity courses, along with our live Skills and Ethics programs. You can see our options for Bridge the Gap CLE here: Bridge the Gap CLE Options.
Courses purchased through UnitedCLE.com are provided and fully accredited by The National Academy of Continuing Legal Education, an Accredited NYS CLE Provider.
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Professional Practice
2
$55
All Courses Available iOS/Android Web
About This Course
Designed to help attorneys prepare for and examine expert witnesses, this informative CLE course will explain how to gather and assess information in preparation for a deposition or trial testimony of an expert, as well as how to formulate a comprehensive inquiry for the examination of an expert witness.
The course will address how to present the relevant background of your expert and the areas in which they have approval and standing to render expert opinions.
The course will also explain how to prepare for and present issues such as:
Relative bias
Qualifications to testify both in general and in this particular case
Circumstances of their retention by the opposing party
Reliance on authoritative materials or lack thereof
Breadth of their knowledge and qualifications. in general and as it relates to the case at hand
Information provided and not provided to the expert
Expert’s specific knowledge of the facts of this particular case
Information supporting the opinions of the expert
Expert’s prior testimony on subjects relating to the opinions presented in this case
Establishing Daubert or other credibility and reliability challenges or limitation-related arguments
How to inquire about and fully examine the expert’s actual opinions
Maneuvering the expert to endorse your expert or the materials that your expert has relied upon
Inquiries regarding expert’s belief that any additional work is needed to finalize the opinions
and more
*This course qualifies as a Transitional course and can be taken by both Experienced and Newly Admitted attorneys in NY.
For information about permissible formats for Newly Admitted attorneys, please click here.
