Feds and Bar Fees
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Anonymous
| Does your agency reimburse you for annual bar dues and other expenses related to your license (e.g., CLE fees and time to take CLEs, conferences, etc.)? |
Anonymous
| GAO - Bar fees yes, don't know about CLE. |
Anonymous
| nope |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Bar fees - No.
CLE -- Yes, if related to work and if current budget allows (infrequently). We seek public interest/public agency fees from all CLE sponsors such as ELI and ALI-ABA, which are usually a considerable discount from the standard price. Conferences: Not usually but if specifically related and within budget, yes. Can also get official time or admin leave, depending on the situation, to go to a conference that is related to agency mission that you are paying for yourself. |
Anonymous
| no |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
| Some agencies have union contracts that reimburse for this. |
Anonymous
| No. I pay bar fees and mandatory CLE myself. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Not any more, no. We used to get bar dues (only one State, though most of us are members of more than one) and one or two work-related conferences a year that might count for CLE depending on your requirements. The bar dues went away a couple years ago, and the conference fees are theoretically possible but really there's no money.
We never got straight-up CLE money just because CLE is a license requirement -- not even my private practice job offered that -- but might get admin time to attend a CLE course or conference if work-related. |
Anonymous
| No and no. But most of us can meet our CLE requirements by attending (free) training offered by our division or work-related training that the office pays for. |
Anonymous
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Yes to bar dues, for one jurisdiction. But it's unusual even within my agency, my small attorney group is the only one I know of with this perk.
CLEs- we used to be allowed to attend one travel CLE a year and it was all paid for, but not the last few years. I can cobble together enough CLEs from conferences I speak at and free events around town usually. |
Anonymous
| No. We are a small agency and at least 60% lawyers, maybe more, so paying bar dues or CLE fees would be prohibitively expensive. A shame. I really miss the days when the firm paid for it all. |