CLE Noncompliance

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If you fail to comply with your CLE requirements, you must follow the instructions below to come back into compliance under the Continuing Legal and Judicial Education (CLJE) Rules and Regulations.

2024: CLE Guidelines for Colorado lawyers and judges who may not have fulfilled CLE requirements for the compliance period ending 12/31/2024

For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31, we must receive your affidavits of completion no later than January 31 or you will incur a late reporting fee. For courses accredited in Colorado, you should enter your courses directly online to your CLE Transcript; you must submit your credits on or by January 31.

For all other CLE activities requiring submission of a CLE activity form, you must submit the form for review to our Office no later than January 31. If after our Office reviews your submission, you fall short of your CLE requirements, you must prepare and complete a CLE Make-up Plan to cure the deficiency. We encourage you to not delay in submitting a request for compliance via comity or any CLE activity forms that require evaluation of an activity by our Office. Forms are located on our website here.

The fee schedule for sending in late affidavits is as follows:

CLE Late Affidavit Fees effective to December 31, 2025*

Reminder – For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31, if received by our Office on or before January 31, there is no late fee.

For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31, and received by our Office on or after February 1, there is a $150.00 late fee.

For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31, and received by our Office on or after March 1, there is a $300.00 late fee.

For all CLE activities completed after December 31, outside of your compliance period, you will need to file a Make-up Plan.

Late Affidavit

Filing a Make-Up Plan (effective to December 31, 2025)*

If you do not complete your requirement by December 31, you may file a request for an extension of time. Your request should be filed by January 31 on the Make-Up Plan form. An extension of your original compliance period may be granted only if you file an acceptable Make-Up Plan. An acceptable CLE Make-Up Plan consists of the following:

Listing programs or homestudy programs that have already been accredited by our Office which you intend to take to remedy your deficiency; you should confirm that the programs chosen offer enough CLE credits to cure your deficiency. A list of Colorado-accredited programs is located on our website here.
Completion of the programs by no later than May 31.
If the Make-Up Plan is filed prior to January 31, the fee is $200. This fee must be paid even if your Make-Up Plan coursework is completed before January 31. If the Make-Up Plan is filed after January 31, there is an additional $200.00 fee. The total due if filed after January 31 is $400.00.

A Make-Up Plan must be accepted by our Office. If not accepted, our Office will notify you within 28 days after the receipt of the Make-Up Plan. If our Office accepts the Make-Up Plan, an extension until May 31 will be given. Full completion of the Make-Up Plan must be reported by affidavit to our Office no later than June 14. Failure of the registered lawyer, LLP, or judge to complete the plan by the 31st of May or to file an affidavit demonstrating compliance constitutes grounds for imposing administrative remedies under C.R.C.P 250.7, which may result in the suspension of the lawyer’s or LLP’s license.

Make-up Plan/Supplemental Late Affidavit

NOTICE OF FEE CHANGES:

CLE Late Affidavit and Make-Up Plan Fees effective January 1, 2026*

For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31 and received by our Office on or after February 1 of the year following the end of the applicable compliance period, the late affidavit fee is $150.

For all CLE activities completed on or before December 31 and received by our Office on or after March 1 of the year following the end of the applicable compliance period, the late affidavit fee is $300.

If a Make-Up Plan is filed with the Office by January 31 of the year following the end of the applicable compliance period, the Make-Up Plan fee is $200. This fee must be paid even if your Make-Up Plan coursework is completed by January 31.

If the Make-Up Plan is filed with the Office after January 31 of the year following the end of the applicable compliance period, the filing fee is $400.

There are no changes to the Petition for Reinstatement filing fee.

Upon receipt of a statement of noncompliance upon which a hearing was not requested or upon receipt of a Hearing Panel’s determination of a registered lawyer’s or LLP’s noncompliance, the Office will promptly forward the statement of noncompliance to the Court, which may enter such order as it deems appropriate, which may include an order of summary suspension from the practice of law in the case of registered lawyers and LLPs, or referral of the matter to the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline or the Denver County Court Judicial Discipline Commission in the case of judges.

Resignation/Withdrawal of License: A lawyer or LLP who has been issued a statement of noncompliance, but not yet suspended, can submit a petition for withdrawal of their Colorado licensure if the lawyer or LLP can demonstrate CLE compliance showing that any pending CLE deficiency has been cured. The lawyer or LLP must file with our Office one copy of a petition for withdrawal addressed to the Colorado Supreme Court. The petition must state with particularity the accredited programs of continuing legal education which the lawyer or LLP has already completed, including dates of their completion, by which activity the lawyer or LLP earned sufficient units of credit to make-up the deficiency which was the cause of the issuance of the statement of noncompliance. The petition must be accompanied by the appropriate filing fee. Our Office will file a properly completed petition, accompanied by our Office’s recommendation, with the Clerk of the Supreme Court within 14 days after receipt of the lawyer’s or LLP’s petition for withdrawal.

Reinstatement: Any lawyer or LLP who has been suspended for CLE noncompliance pursuant to Rule 250.7(10) may be reinstated by order of the Court upon a showing that the lawyer’s or LLP’s current continuing legal education deficiency has been cured. The lawyer or LLP must file with our Office three copies of a petition seeking reinstatement, addressed to the Colorado Supreme Court. The petition must state with particularity the accredited programs of continuing legal education which the lawyer or LLP has already completed, including dates of their completion, by which activity the lawyer or LLP earned sufficient units of credit to cure the deficiency which was the cause of the lawyer’s or LLP’s suspension. Our Office will file a properly completed petition, accompanied by our Office’s recommendation, with the Clerk of the Supreme Court within 14 days after receipt. Petitions for reinstatement from suspension for failure to comply with C.R.C.P. 250 must be accompanied by a fee of $100, in addition to all applicable late fees and make-up plan fees.

CLE Petition for Withdrawal or Reinstatement

*NOTICE: To cover the cost of processing a credit or charge card transaction, and pursuant to section 5-2-212, Colorado Revised Statutes, a seller or lessor may impose a processing surcharge in an amount not to exceed 2% of the total payment made for goods or services purchased or leased by use of a credit or charge card. A seller or lessor shall not impose a processing surcharge on payments made by use of cash, a check, or a debit card or redemption of a gift card.

Pursuant to C.R.S. § 5-2-212 a small credit card processing fee of 2% will be applied to all credit card transactions. This fee is necessary to manage the rising costs associated with accepting credit card payments. To avoid this fee, consider using an alternative payment method such as mailing in a check or money order, Automatic Clearing House (ACH) e-check, or debit card which will not incur this surcharge. Note that payments sent via mail or express delivery that are due by a date-certain will be processed as the date received in our office, not the postmark or date mailed.