Texas CLE — Ethics & Professional Responsibility
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Pre-approved by the State Bar of Texas MCLE Committee. Watch on any device, earn certified credit, self-report through your MCLE Profile.
Texas Ethics Courses
7 courses approved for TX Ethics credit
Coverage
What counts as Texas Ethics CLE
The Texas Bar accepts coursework across the following areas toward the 3-hour annual ethics requirement.
Attorney Conduct Standards
Compliance with the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, covering how lawyers must behave in client representation, advocacy, and dealings with the courts.
Confidentiality & Privilege
The lawyer's duty under Rule 1.05 to preserve client confidences, the contours of attorney-client privilege, and the narrow exceptions that permit or compel disclosure.
Conflicts of Interest
Identifying when representation could be compromised by competing duties to other current clients, former clients, the lawyer's personal interests, or third parties.
Client Relations & Communication
Managing scope of representation, fee arrangements, and the lawyer's continuing duty to keep clients reasonably informed about the matters they've entrusted to counsel.
Bias Reduction
Implicit bias, cultural competence, and elimination of discrimination in legal practice — Texas accepts coursework in these areas toward the ethics requirement.
Attorney Wellness, Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Texas explicitly counts education on attorney wellness, substance abuse prevention, and mental health awareness as ethics credit alongside traditional conduct topics.
Compliance
How the Texas requirement works
Active Texas attorneys licensed two or more years must complete 15 hours of accredited CLE every compliance year, of which at least 3 hours must be ethics or professional responsibility. Compliance years run on a birth-month cycle — your deadline is the last day of the month before your birth month.
Texas allows up to 15 hours of carryover to the next compliance year, including up to 3 ethics hours. So credits earned past the minimum aren't wasted — they roll forward automatically.
Every Texas ethics course on this page has been individually approved by the State Bar of Texas MCLE Committee, with its own MCLE approval number. After you watch and pass the survey, your certificate downloads instantly with the course's approval number and credit details already filled in for self-reporting.
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