Ohio Gov. Bar. R., reg. 302

As amended through October 29, 2024

Regulation 302 - Record of CLE Credit

302.1 The Commission shall maintain a CLE Record for each Attorney, Magistrate, and Judge. The CLE Record shall contain all of the following:

(A) Approved CLE Activities for which the Attorney, Magistrate, or Judge has been awarded CLE Credit during the Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's current biennial compliance period;

(B) CLE Credit hours earned to date;

(C) The date on which the Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's current biennial compliance period ends.

302.2 In any proceeding authorized by the provisions of Rule X, Rule IV, or these Regulations, a Transcript of an Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's record, when certified as correct by the Secretary, is rebuttably presumed to correctly show the number of CLE Credit hours that have been awarded by the Commission to the Attorney, Magistrate, or Judge during the applicable biennial compliance period.

302.3 The Commission may maintain the information required by Regulation 302.1 in an electronic system of record storage.

302.4 CLE Credits requested by an Attorney, Magistrate, or Judge shall be posted by the Commission to the Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's CLE Record within forty-five days following the submission of the Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's request for the award and is deemed complete except when either of the following apply:

(A) When the Commission defers the award of CLE Credit pending an investigation of a request for CLE Credit;

(B) When the Commission denies the award of CLE Credit following an investigation of a request for CLE Credit.

302.5 The Secretary shall notify an Attorney, Magistrate, or Judge requesting CLE Credit of any decision denying or deferring the award of CLE Credit or granting fewer than the requested number of hours of CLE Credits within thirty days after such determination. Only that number of CLE Credit hours approved by the Commission shall be posted to an Attorney's, Magistrate's, or Judge's CLE Record.

302.6 In any case in which an Attorney is awarded fewer than the total number of CLE Credit hours requested, the request for credit shall be kept by the Commission for two years following its receipt by the Commission.

Ohio. Gov. Bar. R., reg. 302

Amended July 12, 2022, effective 1/1/2023.