(a) Course Components. Compliance with the basic skills course requirement includes:
(1) completion of a Practicing with Professionalism course sponsored by the Young Lawyers Division, which must include the curriculum of the 2-credit hour Florida Legal Professionalism course required by rule 6-10.3(b); and
(2) completion of 21 credit hours of Young Lawyers Division-sponsored substantive, basic-level continuing legal education courses sponsored by the YLD.
(b) Time for Completion. The basic skills course requirement must be completed as follows:
(1) The Practicing with Professionalism course must be completed no sooner than 12 months before or no later than 12 months after Florida Bar admission; and
(2) The 21-credit hours of substantive, basic-level continuing legal education courses must be completed during the member’s initial 3-year continuing legal education requirement reporting cycle assigned on Florida Bar admission.
Added April 21, 1988, effective Oct. 1, 1988 (524 So.2d 634). Amended Sept. 21, 1989, effective Oct. 1, 1989 (548 So.2d 1120); Feb. 15, 1990 (556 So.2d 1119); July 23, 1992, effective Jan. 1, 1993 (605 So.2d 252); Feb. 8, 2001 (795 So.2d 1); May 12, 2005, effective May 12, 2005 (SC04-914); February 4, 2010, effective March 6, 2010 (SC09-1427). Amended June 11, 2015, effective October 1, 2015 (SC14-2088); amended February 29, 2024, effective January 8, 2024 (SC23-1412).