With the recent Florida Supreme Court order prohibiting The Florida Bar from approving continuing legal education programs from sponsors that use “quotas based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation in the selection of course faculty or participants,” the Bar will no longer approve ABA programs for CLE credit.

The court acted on its own motion April 15 regarding a recently adopted Business Law Section policy that “imposes quotas requiring a minimum number of ‘diverse’ faculty, depending on the number of faculty teaching the course.” Because the ABA’s CLE Diversity and Inclusion Policy is very similar to the Business Law Section policy, the ABA’s CLE programs are now ineligible for Florida CLE credit, according to Terry Hill, director of programs for The Florida Bar.

Hill said the Bar is also now prohibited from awarding credit to Florida attorneys who self-apply for CLE credit for ABA programs, including speakers.