Approved hours

259 (1) Activities that are approved by the board either before or after the close of the reporting period may be used to satisfy the requirement of SCR 31.02. Lawyers claiming credit for activities that are not already approved must seek approval on a CLE Form 2 filed contemporaneously with their CLE Form 1. (2)(a) Up to 15 hours of CLE reported on CLE Form 1 may be carried forward to the next reporting period if all of the following conditions are met: 1. The hours that are to be carried forward reflect attendance during the reporting period covered by the CLE Form 1. 2. These hours reflect attendance at courses that are approved by the board either before or after the close of the reporting period. Lawyers claiming credit for activities that are not already approved must seek approval on a CLE Form 2 filed contemporaneously with their CLE Form 1. 3. Repealed. (b) Repealed. (c) CLE programs approved by the board for legal ethics and professional responsibility may not be carried forward under this subsection for the purpose of fulfilling the legal ethics and professional responsibility requirement of SCR 31.02(2) but may be carried forward under par. (a). (3) Teaching an approved continuing legal or judicial education activity or teaching a course, or teaching as guest presenter in a course, in a law school approved by the American bar association may be used to satisfy the requirement of SCR 31.02. The board shall award 2 hours for each hour of presentation. (4) Participation in an educational activity approved by the judicial education committee may be used to satisfy the requirement of SCR 31.02. (5)(a) A repeated on-demand program may be used to satisfy the requirement of SCR 31.02, if all of the following conditions are met: 1. The repeated on-demand program is approved prior to being claimed for credit by a lawyer on CLE Form 1, and the lawyer must take the on-demand program no later than December 31 of the year after the year in which approval was given. 2. Sponsors of the approved on-demand on-line program must maintain a roster verifying the attendance of all attorneys logged-in and paying for the program and provide the roster to the board if requested. (b) No more than 15.0 credits may be claimed for repeated on- 260 demand programs during a lawyer's reporting period. (c) No legal ethics and professional responsibility credit is allowed for a repeated on-demand program. (d) For reinstatement, readmission, or reactivation, no more than 50 percent of a lawyer’s CLE may come from repeated on demand programs. (6) Each hour of service on the office of lawyer regulation preliminary review committee, special preliminary review panel, district committee or as an office of lawyer regulation special investigator may be used to satisfy the requirements of SCR 31.02, to a maximum of 3.0 hours of legal ethics and professional responsibility credit per reporting period, provided that the office of lawyer regulation maintains a roster verifying service and provides the roster to the board if requested. (7) One (1.0) hour of Wisconsin continuing legal education credit may be claimed for every five (5.0) hours of pro bono legal services as defined in this chapter to satisfy the requirements of SCR 31.02, up to a maximum of six (6.0) credits per reporting period. Pro bono legal services credit may not be used for reinstatement, readmission, or reactivation.