Participatory CLE Credit:
YouKnowItAll.com offers participatory credit. Participatory CLE Credit is the good kind. It is the category of credit that is earned at traditional courses that you attend in person. The rules vary from state to state. For MCLE regulatory details click on: MCLE Regulatory Approvals

Print the Course or Read it on Your Computer:
You may print the course text or read it on your computer screen.
The course text appears in your internet browser. It takes a few seconds to finish loading, so be sure it has finished. It usually shows the first page while it loads the rest. After it loads, you do not have to stay connected to the internet while you study the course text. {If your software closes your browser window when you log off from the internet you can use a different browser or copy our course text and paste it in your word processor before logging off.}

Printing:
You may print the course from your browser. It might lose formatting. The course is a Microsoft Word document displayed as a web page. You may convert it into a regular word processing document and print it from your word processer if you prefer.

Take a Course Any Time, All at Once, or at Different Times:
You may take a course all at once or split it into convenient sessions, as you wish. You can adjust to your learning style, study preferences, available time, and schedule.

You choose where to take a course:
You may take the course at your office, home, ranch, cabin, swimming pool, sidewalk cafe, or hotel; or while a passenger in a car, plane, train, or bus. You may even take it at the court house while waiting for the judge to call your case or the jury to return a verdict; at a chess tournament between moves; or at the dentist’s office or beauty parlor while waiting for your appointment. You earn MCLE credit wherever you are, just as if you attended a traditional seminar in person. You do not have to go to a fancy hotel, pay to park, and sit in a ballroom on an uncomfortable chair at a long skinny table with water glasses, pencils, and note pads. Of course, if you just can’t break your old habits, you may drive to a fancy hotel, find an uncomfortable chair, and take the course there.

Internet:
You will need access to the internet to obtain the course text, and when you observe the Discussion and certify your actual study hours. You can log on from Paris, France, Paris, Texas, your home, or your office.

Dates:
Courses are continuously available. Due to regulatory requirements, courses are repeated on a regular schedule, with sessions three times per month beginning on the 1st, 11th, and 21st of each month and ending when the next session begins. Therefore, courses are always available.

Cost:
Tuition is $20 per actual study hour. The time and tuition that we designate is the maximum for the course. If your actual study time is more than the maximum, we do not charge for the extra time and you do not get MCLE credit for the extra time. If your actual study time for a course is less than we designate, you receive CLE credit for your actual study hours and tuition is adjusted down to $20 per hour for your actual study hours.

Payment:
You pay at the end. When you certify your actual study hours, your tuition is calculated at $20 per actual study hour up to the maximum for the course. You choose whether to pay by check or credit card.

Your check is good:
We accept checks. We trust you. If you want to pay by check, you tell us that you will send a check and we believe you. We immediately process your CLE credit without waiting for your check to arrive.

Credit Cards:
We accept credit cards. If you want to pay by credit card, when you click on the credit card option, you will be transferred to a secure online payment server operated by VeriSign, one of the largest online credit card transaction processors, which will process your credit card transaction. VeriSign will transfer your funds to our account at Wells Fargo and let us know that you have paid.

Window Shop and Preview our Courses Without Obligation:
You may look at the course without obligation. All you risk is your time. We are not worried. We believe you will find our courses worthwhile.

MCLE credit records and reporting:
The process varies by state.

After you certify your actual hours and pay (or promise to pay), we furnish a Certificate showing your CLE credit. The certificate will appear on your computer so you can print it or save on your computer. It is common for lawyers in states other than Texas to either keep their own records and submit summaries, or for lawyers to submit their own records to the regulators. Our certificate satisfies the requirements for most states. If you need something else for your state, let us know.

Texas lawyers will receive the same Certificate showing your CLE credit. It includes the course number which you may use on your annual reports or enter it in your account on the State Bar of Texas website. We also submit an attendance report for you to the State Bar of Texas MCLE Department. We typically mail the reports three times a month, on or just after the 1st, 11th, and 21st, for the prior sessions. MCLE credit is “as of” the date you take the course, regardless of when the SBOT processes our report. They typically are processed by the SBOT and in your SBOT MCLE accounts within a week or two after we mail them. As you approach or pass your deadline, the SBOT may send a notice which does not reflect a recent course if the notice is printed before your attendance report is processed. You may check your MCLE account on the SBOT website or phone them to confirm that your account has been credited. Problems are rare, and usually involve the course date for courses that are self-reported by the lawyer. If there is a problem, you may contact the MCLE department or YouKnowItAll.com for assistance. We do not have access to your account information at the SBOT. They do not inform us when your attendance report is processed. If there is a problem that requires our assistance, we will not know until you contact us.

Discussion:
Students who take a course may post comments or questions in the discussion. Due to regulatory requirements, students are required to “observe” the discussion, but students are not required to post anything. Comments are voluntary. Students may read any posted comments, questions, and answers. When you certify your actual study hours, you will be required to confirm that you have seen the discussion and know that you may ask questions or make comments if you wish to do so. A discussion may be long, or their may not be any comments or questions. Either satisfies the requirment.

Time:
Time that we designate for a course is the maximum MCLE credit you may earn. We generally provide material which will take somewhat more than the designated time. The extra time is “free” education without MCLE credit. If you spend less that the designated time, your MCLE credit will be for your actual study hours. We ask you to certify your actual study time even if it is more than the designated maximum for the course. That extra time does not affect your MCLE credit or the tuition. It is important because we use it as research data to help us determine the maximum time for courses and provide regulators with information about the actual time lawyers spend on our courses. We are serious about providing full value to you, and complying with the spirit and letter of the rules. This data is critical to allow us to do that.

You keep track of your time, and certify your actual time to us.

Discussion time (making comments, asking questions, or reading the discussion) counts toward your actual study hours.

We use 60 minute hours. You certify 60 minute hours. If your state uses a different number of minutes for an “hour,” you adjust the time after you earn our 60 minute hours. For example, 2 hours of our hours equals 120 minutes of credit. In some states, our 2 hour course provides you with more than 2 “hours” of credit.

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