Is there a special educational requirement for all newly admitted New Jersey attorneys?

Yes. BCLE Reg. 201:2 provides that during a newly admitted lawyer’s first compliance period after admission to the Bar of New Jersey, the newly admitted lawyer must satisfy fifteen of his/her twenty-four required credit hours in any five of the following nine subject areas listed below. The Skills & Methods Course has been abolished, but a lawyer who has completed at least the first full year’s requirements of the Skills and Methods Course will be considered to have met the additional requirements for a newly admitted lawyer.

The nine subject areas are:
 • New Jersey Basic Estate Administration
• New Jersey Basic Estate Planning
• New Jersey Civil Trial Preparation
   OR New Jersey Criminal Trial Preparation
• New Jersey Family Law Practice
• New Jersey Real Estate Closing Procedures
• New Jersey Trust & Business Accounting
• New Jersey Landlord-Tenant Practice
• New Jersey Municipal Court Practice
• New Jersey Law Office Management

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