Stay abreast of the latest cases and legal happenings through online legal education courses, legal seminars and continuing legal education (CLE) options. Utilizing legal training seminars and industry events can help make your practice a leader in your community by keeping you on top of your game.

Continuing legal education can help you stay current on existing laws and legislation that directly affect your practice. Use legal training and seminars to satisfy all of your professional training and continuing education credit requirements.

To find the right continuing legal education courses for you:

1. Find out what your state's legal training continuing education requirements are.

2. Price out available courses.

3. Determine if you plan to travel to a course, or if you can take one online to fill your requirements.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Find legal education and training courses and seminars

There are a large number of legal seminars and lawyer training courses found online for you to sign up for and/or travel to. Many state bar associations and the national groups offer a large number of continuing legal education courses, seminars and conferences where you can pick up continuing education credits.

I recommend: The National Business Institute has been providing continuing legal education for over 20 years. They offer programs like Advanced Issues in Employment Law, Evictions and Landlord Tenant Law and Product Liability, Drafting LLC and LLP Agreements, Bad Faith Litigation, Road and Access Law and Litigation to help you carve out specialty offerings for your clients. Check out the American Bar Association's Center for Continuing Legal Education. Look at the programs offered by the West LegalEdcenter. Look into conference information from the Association for Continuing Legal Education.

Consider online legal education for your legal training

Online legal education courses let you take lawyer education and training in the comfort of your own home, at your own pace and on your own schedule.

I recommend: Look at the online courses offered through the American Law Institute/American Bar Association. Check out the featured online continuing legal education classes from Lawline, CLE Inc. Check out CLE catalogs by state from Legalspan, Inc.

Look at continuing legal education programs

If you have more time that you can invest, consider taking a whole continuing legal education course as opposed to just a week or weekend seminar.

I recommend: Find out about the award-winning training offered by The Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Check the calendar for continuing education classes in New York listed from New York CLE.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Find legal training that is both cost effective and interesting to make your legal studies fun and applicable to your practice.
• •  Splurge on a continuing legal education seminar that's out of town. It will be fun to network with your colleagues, and it might be nice to get out of the house and/or office, even if it is for a brief amount of time.