36 credit hours every 3 years, reported every 3 years. Verified against the IN bar or court authority.
| Total CLE required | 36 credit hours every 3 years |
|---|---|
| Ethics requirement | 3 hrs/yr min |
| Reporting cycle | Every 3 years |
| Online CLE accepted | Yes |
| Accreditation route | Approved (Commission for CLE) |
Note: Attorney wellness is encouraged but not a mandated hour.
Annualised, that is 12 hours per year, exactly at the national median of 12 hours per year.
Indiana does not carry a separate wellness or mental health category. Wellness and secondary trauma training is generally applied toward the general credit requirement here. That is not a lesser category: it is the largest one. Of the 51 United States jurisdictions, 16 recognise wellness or mental health credit specifically and 16 mandate bias or inclusion credit, which means most attorneys satisfy this kind of training as general hours.
Indiana requires 36 hours every 3 years, of which 3 are earmarked for ethics. That leaves roughly 33 hours every 3 years that you choose the content for. Those are the hours in question.
Replacing a single associate is estimated at between $200,000 and $500,000, and industry analysis puts the fully loaded cost of losing a third-year associate above $1 million once foregone billings are counted. Associate attrition reached 20 percent in the most recent national data, with departures now clustering nearer the four-year mark than the historical five.
Exposure is not evenly distributed across a bar. It follows the material. Practitioners representing survivors carry the client's account as their working material, over years, across many clients. Firms and offices in Indiana doing victim advocacy and civil rights carry more of this than a general commercial practice does, and their training needs differ accordingly.
These are competence issues, not comfort issues. They surface as missed deadlines, degraded judgment on live matters, ethics complaints, and the departure of lawyers a firm has already paid to train. If Indiana is going to require the time anyway, it can be spent on the thing that is measurably breaking.
Indiana requires 36 credit hours every 3 years. Of that, the ethics requirement is 3 hrs/yr min. The reporting cycle runs every 3 years.
Yes. Rules on self-study versus live or interactive formats vary, and newly admitted attorneys are often held to stricter requirements than experienced ones. Confirm with the accrediting authority before enrolling.
Indiana does not maintain a separate wellness or mental health credit category. Such programming is generally applied toward general credit. Many states permit self-application of general credit using a certificate of attendance; confirm the process with the accrediting authority.
Approved (Commission for CLE). Requirements change, so verify directly with the issuing authority before relying on any summary, including this one.
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