NJSBA Helps New Jersey Lawyers Acquire Mandatory Continuing Education

Operating out of the Newark and Trenton, New Jersey, offices of the government and business consulting services company Duane Morris Government Strategies, Martin Milita serves as a senior director handling government affairs in New Jersey. Admitted to the bar in New Jersey, Martin Milita received a juris doctor from the James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is also a member of the Administrative and Business Law sections of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA). With more than 18,200 members, NJSBA is a voluntary membership organization that supports New Jersey attorneys in their practice by creating professional networks within individual practice areas and providing a collection of resources, including seminars and materials designed to assist members in meeting mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements.

NJSBA is organized into 36 sections focused on distinct areas of legal practice. Together, the sections represent an array of fields ranging from lesbian, gay, and transgender rights to dispute resolution. By joining sections related to their specific areas of practice, NJSBA members are able to network with colleagues and participate in seminars and workshops covering the latest issues in their specific fields of practice.

Sections also assist members to comply with the 2010 order of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Board on Continuing Legal Education that all licensed lawyers in the state complete 24 hours of CLE every two years. NJSBA sections and committees regularly hold meetings where CLE seminars are available to members. Attorneys who attend a New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) seminar sponsored by their section receive a 25% discount. A division of the NJSBA, NJICLE annually offers more than 275 live and online CLE seminars each year and produces CLE lecture handbooks and legal education software designed for lawyers.

Furthermore, NJSBA maintains an online library of CLE content that is accessible by all members. At least 4 hours of mandatory CLE must pertain to ethics and professionalism, and material elaborating on these subjects is included among the library's resources, as well as text covering a diversity of other discrete topics related to legal practice.