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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 | SERVING CHICAGO’S LEGAL COMMUNITY FOR 164 YEARS | CHICAGOLAWBULLETIN.COM VOLUME 166, NO. 152 MCLE Board launches portal for lawyers to track their credit hours JESSiE M. MOLLOy leaving it up to each attor- jmolloy@lawbulletinmedia.com ney to track his or her own hours and then report their The Minimum Continuing compliance at the end of Legal Education Board each reporting period. launched a new online por- With the new portal, users tal for attorneys in Illinois to will have an online space to track their CLE credits. track those credits. They will The new service unveiled still need to manually enter at mcleboard.org last week CLE credits earned from comes after three years of nontraditional qualifying development with the Illi- methods including teaching nois Supreme Court and or taking law courses and allows CLE course providers publishing legal books or to enter attorneys’ atten- articles. Michele M. Jochner dance records into the sys- Bar associations and tem, where lawyers can view course providers started log- country because time is a them. ging records into the data- precious commodity for “The [c]ourt has been base in August 2019. attorneys,” said MCLE Board accelerating the adoption of The portal also includes Chair Michele M. Jochner, a technology to improve the contact info for course partner at Schiller DuCanto administration of justice, providers, bar groups and & Fleck. “We worked very increase efficiency, and the Attorney Registration hard to create a user- reduce costs,” Chief Justice and Disciplinary Commis- friendly system for Illinois Anne M. Burke said in a writ- sion. attorneys, which we hope ten statement. The MCLE The portal is similar to sys- will enhance accuracy in Board’s latest advance con- tems used in other states. credit reporting and ensure tinues that progress by “This is a trend across the ease and convenience.” improving efficiency and reducing costs for attor- neys.” MCLE’S NEW PORTAL Under the MCLE system To check the service for your own course records, you implemented in 2006, Illi- can visit mcleboard.org/files/AttorneyListPage.aspx. nois is a self-reporting state, Copyright © 2020 Law Bulletin Media. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Law Bulletin Media.