• Each activity offered should have significant intellectual or practical content. Its primary objective will be to increase the participants’ professional competence as attorneys; it will be designed primarily for lawyers. (Reg. 4.1.2)

• Each activity so offered should deal primarily with substantive legal issues, practice management, professional responsibility or ethical obligations of attorneys. Whenever possible, ethical implications of practice management subject matter shall be included. Activities designed solely to sell services or equipment will not be approved. (Reg. 4.1.3)

• Speakers should be qualified by virtue of practical or academic experience. Programs, including advertised speakers, will be conducted substantially as planned, subject to emergency withdrawals and alterations. (Reg. 4.1.5.)

• Thorough, high quality, readable and carefully prepared written materials should be made available to all participants at or before the time each activity is presented, unless the absence of such materials is deemed reasonable and approved by the Commission. (Reg. 4.1.6.)

• Speakers should required to refrain from advertising or encouraging the use of their products or services during accredited CLE activities. (Reg. 4.1.13.)

• The registration fee for each activity should be reasonable, considering the subject matter, instructional level and expense of conducting it. (Reg. 4.1.11.)

• Video-taped and audio-taped presentations or replays should have a qualified instructor present to comment and answer questions. Satellite and teleconferenced programs will have either telephone hook-ups to instructors at the broadcast location or an instructor present at the receiving site to comment and answer questions. (Reg. 4.1.8.)

• Program sponsors should limit “question and answer” segments or “participants idea sharing” segments without written materials or lecture direction to 15 minutes or less per day. Alternative learning methods may be submitted in advance to a program and reviewed for credit by the MCLE Commission. This does not apply to skills training programs.

• Self-study is not approved in Alabama. (Reg. 4.1.8.)