Kan. R. Cont. L. Ed. 801

As amended through February 2, 2024
Rule 801 - DEFINITIONS
(a)"Active attorney" means an attorney who is required to pay the annual registration fee, is registered as active for the current licensing period under Rule 206(a)(1) and (b)(1), and is not suspended or disbarred from the practice of law by the Supreme Court.
(b)"Approved program" means a continuing legal education program that has been approved under these rules.
(c)"Board" means the body created under Rule 803.
(d)"Compliance period" means the period of one year beginning July 1 and ending June 30.
(e)"Continuing Legal Education Office" means the division of the Kansas Supreme Court's Office of Judicial Administration that assists the Supreme Court and the Board with administering and regulating continuing legal education.
(f)"Continuing legal education program" or "CLE program" means a legal education program, course, or activity designed to maintain and improve an attorney's professional competence.
(g)"Ethics" means the standards found in the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct that an attorney must comply with to practice law in Kansas and remain in good standing.
(h)"Guidelines" means a document that prescribes administrative requirements for continuing legal education that are not set forth in these rules.
(i)"Inactive attorney" means an attorney who is registered as inactive under Rule 206(b)(1).
(j)"Law practice management program" means a CLE program specifically designed for attorneys on nonsubstantive topics that address ways to enhance the quality and efficiency of an attorney's service to clients.
(k)"Live program" means a CLE program offered at a set time during which the attorney has the ability to contact the moderator or presenter to comment and ask questions. A live program may be held in person or delivered through an electronic medium.
(l)"OJA" means the Kansas Supreme Court's Office of Judicial Administration and includes the Continuing Legal Education Office.
(m)"Prerecorded program" means an on-demand CLE program accessible through an electronic medium solely by an individual attorney in a format approved by OJA.
(n)"Professionalism" means conduct consistent with the tenets of the legal profession by which an attorney demonstrates civility, honesty, integrity, character, fairness, competence, ethical conduct, public service, and respect for the rules of law, the courts, clients, other attorneys, witnesses, and self-represented and unrepresented persons.
(o) Provider" means an individual or organization offering a CLE program.

Kan. R. Cont. L. Ed. 801

New rules 801-811 adopted effective 7/1/2011; Am. (d) effective 4/29/2013; Am. (h) effective 7/1/2017; Am. (i) effective 7/1/2019; Am. effective 10/2/2019; Am. effective 4/2/2021; Am. effective 6/1/2021; Am. effective 7/1/2022.