Yes. The Illinois MCLE Board has approved Real Estate Institute as an Accredited CLE Provider. As a result, CLE programs offered by Real Estate Institute are presumptively approved for general MCLE credits. Any courses offered for professional responsibility or ethic credit are separately approved by the Commission on Professionalism of the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Illinois Supreme Court Rules 790 through 797 establish Minimum Continuing Legal Education ("MCLE") requirements for Illinois attorneys. Each attorney admitted before October 1, 2011 is required to complete 30 hours of CLE activity, including 6 hours of professional responsibility credit, during the current two-year reporting period in effect in Illinois. Hours need not be allocated evenly over the two-year reporting period.

Please see the chart below for your requirement:

Last Names Beginning with N-Z

• 2-Yr Reporting Period Begins:  7/1/2021 through 6/30/2023
• CLE Required: 30 Hours

Last Names Beginning with A-M

• 2-Yr Reporting Period Begins:  7/1/2020 through 6/30/2022
• CLE Required: 30 Hours

Yes. If you were admitted before July 1, 2008, you may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours; however professional responsibility hours carry over as general hours. These 10 hours may be carried over only to satisfy the next consecutive period’s requirements.

If you were admitted on or after July 1, 2008, you may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours, including professional responsibility hours. These 10 hours may be carried over only to satisfy the next consecutive period’s requirements.

Once you enroll in an online CLE course, you will receive a username and password that provides access the online presentation(s) and written course materials. After viewing the course in its entirety, you must submit an affidavit of course completion to Real Estate Institute.

The affidavit may be submitted online, at which time you will be required to state that you have viewed the entire presentation as of the date of submission. All affidavits must be submitted to Real Estate Institute within thirty (30) days of course completion. Once we receive the affidavit, we will process the information and issue a certificate of completion for the course within two (2) business days. Certificates of completion will be delivered to attorneys by e-mail and U.S. Mail.

The MCLE Board will mail you a copy of the MCLE Certification Form. You can either return this by mail or complete the form online.

As required by the MCLE Rules, attorneys must maintain their own certificates of attendance and other proof of MCLE compliance. At the end of the reporting period, attorneys must report whether they have complied with the MCLE Rules, have not complied with the MCLE Rules, or were exempt from the MCLE Rules during the reporting period. Before the end of an attorney's two-year reporting period, the MCLE Board will mail the reporting form to the attorney's address on file with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. Each attorney who is not exempt is responsible for filing the reporting form with the Board, even if the attorney does not receive the form by mail.

Newly-admitted attorneys admitted on or after October 1, 2011, are required to report to the MCLE Board by the last day of the month that occurs one year after the newly-admitted attorney's admission to practice in Illinois.

Individual attorneys should not mail, e-mail or fax their certificates of attendance or other MCLE-related documentation to the MCLE Board unless they are notified by the Board that they are being audited. Attorneys need to keep their proof of MCLE compliance for three years after the two-year reporting period ends, so that the attorney can respond if audited by the MCLE Board.

Attorneys who fail to submit an MCLE certification within 31 days of their reporting date, or who file an MCLE certification stating that they have not complied with the CLE requirements during the reporting period, are notified by the Director of their non-compliance. They are then given until September 30 of that year to achieve compliance and file a certification stating that they have complied with the CLE requirements or are exempt (and pay $100 late fee if you reported non-compliance by July 31, or $250 if you fail to report or complete by July 31.)

Attorneys who do not achieve compliance and file a certification with the MCLE Board will be removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys authorized to practice law. To be reinstated, attorneys are required to complete the CLE credits from each reporting period for which they were deficient and submit a reinstatement fee for each of those reporting periods.

Note: Fees above reflect MLCE increase effective July 1, 2015.

Yes. You may be completely exempt from the MCLE requirements if you meet an exemption on the last day of the reporting period or for at least 365 days of the period . You are able to claim a partial exemption of half of the CLE required hours, if you meet an exemption for more than 60 days during the reporting period but less than 365 days. The exemptions are:

• Inactive or Retired: All attorneys while on inactive or retirement status under Supreme Court Rules 756(a)(5) or (a)(6). If an attorney chooses to return to active status, the attorney must complete the deferred CLE requirement within 24 months of resuming active status. (Rule 791(e).)
• Disability Inactive: All attorneys on disability inactive status under Supreme Court Rules 757 or 758. If an attorney chooses to return to active status, the attorney must complete the deferred CLE requirement (Rule 791(e).)
• Judicial: All attorneys serving in the office of justice, judge, associate judge, or magistrate of any federal or state court.
• Certain Attorneys Working or Employed in the State or Federal Judiciary: All attorneys who by virtue of their office or employment in the state or federal judiciary, are prohibited by the Supreme Court of Illinois or the federal judiciary from actively engaging in the practice of law.
• Military: All attorneys licensed to practice law in Illinois who are on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, until their release from active military service and their return to the active practice of law.
• Out-of-State: Certain out-of-state attorneys are exempt if they meet specific exemption requirements. Click here for more information.
• MCLE Board Exempted: Attorneys exempted temporarily by the MCLE Board due to extreme hardship in the form of illness, financial hardship, or other extraordinary or extenuating circumstances beyond the attorney’s control.

Yes, but Illinois attorneys may not earn credit for the same course within one year (365 days). Credit may be earned for the same course after one year has passed.

Our recorded audio/video presentations require a high-speed internet connection and are compatible with most modern web browsers on desktop, laptop, and tablet devices.

The presentations may also be played on some small-screen mobile devices (like smartphones), but we strongly discourage use of these devices because your playback experience can be affected by device limitations.

You are not required to load special apps or other software components.

No. Our presentations are online, on-demand presentations that may only be viewed while your computer or mobile device is connected to the internet

For additional information, please visit the frequently asked questions section of the Illinois MCLE Board website at http://mcle.custhelp.com/app

No.  If you are at least 18 years of age and are admitted to practice law by the Illinois Supreme Court, you are exempt for having to complete any real estate pre-license education.  You must still pass a state exam before applying for the license.

Real Estate Institute offers an all day review program for attorneys before sitting for the state exam. 

All qualifying attorneys must complete an Illinois Real Estate Examination Registration form along with providing a photocopy of their ARDC card.  This form must be mailed to PSI/AMP at the provided address located on the form. 

Click here to access the PSI candidate handbook and obtain the form.  For further questions about the exam, you can contact PSI directly at (800) 345-6559 or at info@goAMP.com

Illinois Supreme Court Rule 793, establishes that all attorneys admitted on or after October 1, 2011, in the first year after their admission date, are exempt from the 30-hour continuing legal education requirement. During this period, they are required to complete the following:

1. An approved 6-credit-hour Basic Skills Course, or an approved mentoring program;
2. At least nine additional hours of Illinois-approved CLE including any amount of professional responsibility credit; and
3. Report to the MCLE Board by the last day of the month that occurs one year after the newly-admitted attorney's admission to practice in Illinois.

The deadline to complete Newly-Admitted Attorney (“NAA”) MCLE requirement is one year after the last day of month in which the attorney was admitted to the Illinois bar.

Real Estate Institute does not offer the required program needed for Newly-Admitted Attorneys. Further details of Newly-Admitted Attorney MCLE requirements, deadlines, and course providers are available through the IL MCLE website.

Yes. A minimum of six of the total CLE hours required for the two-year reporting period must be in the area of professionalism, issues involving diversity, mental illness and addiction issues, civility or legal ethics. (This requirement increased from four hours, beginning with the reporting periods ending on June 30 of either 2012 or 2013.)

Attorneys admitted after October 1, 2011, in the year after their admission date, must complete an approved 6-hour Basic Skills Course and 9 additional hours which may include any amount of professional responsibility credit. Click here for our newly-admitted attorney package.

In addition to general continuing legal education, Real Estate Institute offers specific courses approved for total or partial professional responsibility credit. Click here for our course list.