Rule 23-1 Judicial Education Program Requirements
Article 23. Mandatory Continuing Judicial Education
Rule Text
(a) Every Judge, including senior Judges, shall attend approved creditable judicial education programs or activities totaling a minimum of 12 hours every calendar year. At least one hour of the mandated 12 hours per calendar year shall be devoted to the topic of legal or judicial ethics or legal or judicial professionalism. If a Judge completes more than 12 hours of credit in any calendar year, the excess credit shall be carried over and credited to the education requirements for the next succeeding year only.
(b) Every Judge is encouraged to attend national or regional specialty, graduate, or advanced programs of judicial and legal education, including a nationally-based basic course for business court judges.
(c) Qualifying creditable judicial education programs and activities shall include the following:
(1) Programs sponsored by the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education of Georgia.
(2) Programs of continuing legal education accredited by the State Bar of Georgia's Commission on Continuing Lawyer Competency, such as all Institute of Continuing Legal Education programs.
(3) Programs sponsored by any law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
(4) Such other programs of continuing judicial or legal education as may be approved by the Court.
(5) Teaching any of the programs listed in subsections (1) through (4) of this section.
(6) Service on the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission or the State Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Board for legal or judicial ethics or legal or judicial professionalism credit.
(d) For teaching in a program qualifying under subsections (1) through (5) of section (c) of this rule, the following credits shall be given:
(1) Three additional hours for each hour of instructional responsibility as a lecturer when no handout is prepared and six hours for each hour of lecture when a handout is required.
(2) Two hours for each hour as a panelist or mock trial judge.
(3) When the same lecture or other instructional activity is repeated in a single calendar year, additional credit shall be given equivalent to the actual time spent in delivering that presentation.