CLE credit for lawyers and in-house counsel

If you are a member of The Florida Bar, or authorized house counsel in Florida, you can earn continuing legal education (CLE) credit with NAFA courses: The Florida Bar has approved six courses. You can take them live online or on demand in our virtual classroom, with professors who practice. Classes are taught in Spanish, with the essential legal terminology in English.

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Approved courses

Courses approved by The Florida Bar for CLE credit
Course, as approved by The Florida Bar	Start date	Credit	Status
Federal Immigration Law With Lesbia Figueredo · Online, on demand · advanced level · See the course	November 4, 2024	120 minutes, including 15 in ethics and 15 in substance abuse	On demand
Intellectual Property Law – Trademarks, Patents, and Related Rights With Karina Vence Peláez · Live online and on demand · intermediate level · See the course	October 5, 2026	125 minutes	In progress
Introduction to the System of Government, State Laws of the United States Live online and on demand · intermediate level · See the course	February 1, 2027	125 minutes	Upcoming
Federal Credit System and Repair Live online and on demand · advanced level · See the course	June 1, 2027	125 minutes, including 25 in ethics	Upcoming
Commercial and Business Laws of Florida / Constitutional Law of the United States With Elkin D. J. Betancur · Live online and on demand · intermediate level · See the course	May 4, 2026	150 minutes, including 25 in ethics	Ended
Commercial and Business Laws of Florida With Héctor A. Rivera Suárez · Live online and on demand · intermediate level · See the course	July 6, 2026	125 minutes	Ended

When you finish the course, you receive your certificate of attendance, with the course number to report your credit in your Florida Bar account.

How they count toward the Florida requirement

The Florida Bar requires CLE credit every 3 years from its members and from Authorized House Counsel in Florida, under the same rule for both. Each NAFA course counts for the minutes The Florida Bar approved.

The Florida Bar's CLE requirement and the NAFA courses that count
What The Florida Bar requires every 3 years	NAFA courses that count
In total30 hours	Every approved course, with all its minutes.
Ethics, professionalism, substance abuse or mental health5 of the 30 hours	Immigration Law 1: 15 minutes in ethics and 15 in substance abuse Federal & State Credit Repair & Compliance: 25 minutes in ethics Coming soon More courses with ethics hours.
The Florida professionalism course2 of those 5 hours	It is The Florida Bar's own course, free of charge, taken once in each reporting cycle. NAFA does not offer it.
Technology3 of the 30 hours	None yet. Coming soon Courses with technology hours.

Sources: The Florida Bar News: the 30 hours and the professionalism course · Rule 17-1.9: the requirement for authorized house counsel

Did you train as a lawyer outside the United States?

If you work in Florida as authorized house counsel, you must meet the same CLE requirement as members of The Florida Bar (Rule 17-1.9), and these courses count. If you hope to become authorized house counsel, no course is required: what the rule requires is an employer in Florida. These courses prepare you for that work, with business law, intellectual property, compliance and legal English. How in-house counsel registration works (in Spanish)

Florida's Foreign Legal Consultant certification does not require CLE credit: it is renewed every year with an affidavit and a fee. See Rule 16-1.7

Even so, these courses are useful to you: they are the same training The Florida Bar approves for its lawyers. See the courses for foreign-trained lawyers

The approvals are The Florida Bar's and apply to its members and to authorized house counsel in Florida. Other states have their own rules for recognizing CLE credit from another jurisdiction: if your license is from another state, check with your bar before you enroll.

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