Counting CLE as CME

1. Get a record of your CLE hours for the last two years since your renewal date.
2. CLE and CME are both approved on a 50-minute basis so you can assume that the hours approved by The Florida Bar are the same that you would be reporting for CME.
3. DO NOT count any ethics hours reported for legal courses. Mediators are required to earn mediator ethics and the assumption is that legal seminars discuss legal ethics not mediator ethics.
4. For each CLE program you want to report as CME, ask yourself, did this activity enhance my skills/knowledge as a mediator or is it geared toward making me a better lawyer? For example, a course on Contract Law would be beneficial to a mediator; however, a course on Litigation Skills would make me a better lawyer. A seminar on Litigation Skills is not a program on "substantive law related to the practice of mediation" which is the definition for counting legal courses as CME.
5. For each activity that meets the above definition of CME, list the item on your CME Reporting Form. Please do not send in a copy of your CLE Form in lieu of the CME Reporting Form.
6. If you send in your renewal before your renewal date and something is incorrect or incomplete, the DRC will write to you and give you 90 days of continued certification to cure the matter.

Contact

For additional information please contact the Dispute Resolution Center at 850-921-2910 or at DRCmail@tempusvalorem.com.