Compliance Groups

Compliance Groups

NOTICE: Please note the following updates to MCLE compliance deadlines: 

  • Last names A-G: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2025. Report deadline: April 1, 2025.
  • Compliance groups 2 and 3: Extended to a single 38-month cycle ending March 29, 2026, or 2027. Report deadline: March 30.
  • After the single 38-month cycle, each group returns to a standard 36-month cycle starting March 30 of their respective year and ending the day before the deadline 36 months later.

See Notice on 2025 Fee Cycle Changes.

Attorneys assigned to a compliance group will always remain in that same group, even if they change their last name.

  • Attorneys admitted on or before Feb. 1, 1992, were assigned to a compliance group based on the first letter of their last name, as listed on their official State Bar records, effective Feb. 1, 1992, (the beginning of the MCLE program.)
  • Attorneys admitted after Feb. 1, 1992 are assigned to a compliance group based on the first letter of the last name listed on their admit cards. Admit cards are filled out when they are sworn in.
Group 1 (last names A-G) Group 2 (last names H-M) Group 3 (last names N-Z)
Compliance period: 2/1/2022 – 3/29/2025
Deadline to report: April 1, 2025
 Compliance period: 2/1/2024 – 3/29/2027
Deadline to report: March 30, 2027 		Compliance period: 2/1/23 − 3/29/2026
Deadline to report: March 30, 2026