Is there something in
the water that’s causing attorneys to disregard some of the most basic requirements of being a lawyer in Indiana? It seems more and more attorneys who practice in Indiana are having trouble meeting continuing legal education requirements or simply paying
their annual registration fee.
The Indiana Supreme Court
has handed down its yearly suspensions of attorneys who’ve decided they don’t need to keep up on their CLE credits or pay
to keep their law licenses active here, and the numbers don’t look good: more than 200 suspended for failing to pay registration
fees; more than 125 were suspended because of insufficient CLE credits.
That’s a lot of suspensions
considering just two years ago only 65 were suspended for failure to pay and 97 failed to meet CLE requirements. Even though
the attorneys have about a month to pay the fees or get the CLE credits before suspension takes effect, it seems irresponsible
for someone to not keep up with these basic requirements. If an attorney can’t attend CLE courses or come up with the money
to pay registration fees, can’t it put doubt in a client’s mind about an attorney’s ability to handle the client’s case?
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