Track every lawyer's CLE credits.

Law firms track CLE by keeping a record per lawyer of the hours they must complete, the categories those hours must fall in, such as ethics, and the deadline, then logging each course completed inside or outside the firm. A CLE tracker shows who is behind before the deadline, not after it.

In LawAOS the firm authors its own courses, self-study or live, and tags credits as General, Ethics, Skills or Other. Each course carries an accreditation status of Self-certified, Applied or Accredited. Lawyers take courses in the course player at My CLE and download certificates. Each member has requirements for total hours, ethics hours and a deadline, with progress shown and external, self-reported credits added alongside firm courses.

LawAOS does not ship any bar's CLE rules. The firm sets each lawyer's requirement from the rules of the bar or regulator that licenses them.

• Total hours required and the period they cover.
• Category hours, such as ethics, which many bars require separately.
• The deadline for each lawyer.
• Each completed course with its credits, category and accreditation status.
• Courses taken outside the firm, reported by the lawyer.
• A certificate for each firm course completed.

Many firms run internal training that may count toward CLE, from ethics sessions to practice updates. Authoring them in the same knowledge base where the firm keeps precedents and guidance means the material and the credit record stay together.

Accreditation status tells the lawyer whether a course is self-certified, whether the firm has applied for accreditation, or whether it is accredited. Whether a course counts is the licensing body's decision, so lawyers should check before relying on the credit.

A lawyer admitted in two jurisdictions may face two sets of requirements. LawAOS holds the requirement the firm enters for each member, so the firm should record the stricter or combined requirement it wants tracked and check each bar's rules directly.

• Tracking total hours but not the ethics or other category hours a bar requires separately.
• Recording completions without the certificate, so there is nothing to show if the bar audits a lawyer.
• Leaving external conference credits in personal inboxes instead of on the firm record.
• Checking progress only in the final month before the deadline, when there is no time to find an accredited course.
• Assuming an internal session counts before checking its accreditation status with the licensing body.