12 credit hours per year. Reporting: yearly (Aug 1 to July 31); complete by July 31, report by Aug 15. Checked against official sources in October 2026.
| Total CLE required | 12 credit hours per year |
|---|---|
| Ethics requirement | 1 hr (ethics / professionalism / malpractice prevention / substance abuse / mental health) |
| Reporting cycle | Yearly (Aug 1 to July 31); complete by July 31, report by Aug 15 |
| Wellness / mental health credit | Not separately required; can count toward a required category (see the box above) |
| Online CLE accepted | Yes, up to 6 hrs distance learning |
| Accreditation route | Approved (Commission on CLE) |
Note: Substance abuse / mental health explicitly qualifies within the required hour.
Mississippi requires 12 credit hours per year. 23 of the 46 jurisdictions that mandate CLE, including Mississippi, require the same annual amount.
Mississippi counts mental health or well-being topics toward a required category. It's one of 26 jurisdictions where these programs can fill required hours, usually ethics or professionalism, as explained in the box at the top of this page. 9 more require a specific credit.
Mississippi requires 12 credit hours per year, including 1 hr (ethics / professionalism / malpractice prevention / substance abuse / mental health). The rest of those hours are yours to choose, and those are the hours in question.
Spending on workplace culture returns about twice as much as help offered after problems arise (Deloitte, 2020). Training the people who set conditions returns more than treating the people those conditions injure.
Exposure follows the material rather than the job title, and it is not only the attorneys and advocates who carry it. Practitioners representing survivors carry the client's account as their working material, over years and across many clients, and so do the advocates and support staff who prepare it. Firms, offices, and courts in Mississippi whose work runs through material like this carry more of it 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 Mississippi is going to require the time anyway, it can be spent on the thing that is measurably breaking.
Mississippi requires 12 credit hours per year, including 1 hr (ethics / professionalism / malpractice prevention / substance abuse / mental health). Reporting: yearly (Aug 1 to July 31); complete by July 31, report by Aug 15.
Yes, up to 6 hrs distance learning.
Not as a separate credit. Mississippi lawyers need 12 hours of CLE each CLE year (August 1 to July 31), and 1 of those hours has to be in ethics, professional responsibility, professionalism, malpractice prevention, substance abuse or mental health. A substance abuse or mental health program can satisfy that required hour.
Approved (Commission on CLE). Requirements change, so check the official source linked on this page.
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