As of July 1 this year, the McHenry County State's Attorney's Office is accredited as a provider of Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) for its in-house attorneys.
Continuing legal education is required for all Illinois attorneys in order to retain their licenses. As a designated MCLE provider, attorneys in the office may now obtain MCLE credit hours for all in-house trainings conducted, including updates in the law, changes in the rules of evidence and trial techniques.
"These in-house training classes will help save the county and taxpayers monies that otherwise would be spent sending prosecutors to offsite seminars needed to satisfy MCLE requirements," says State's Attorney Louis A. Bianchi.
To become accredited, the State's Attorney's Office had to provide the MCLE board of the Supreme Court of Illinois samples of written materials from past trainings, and a course list of all legal education presented in the past two years. More than 20 legal education programs for its attorneys were presented before achieving accreditation status.
Assistant State's Attorney Ryan Blackney, an attorney in the Special Prosecution Unit, was the lead applicant for the State's Attorney's Office.
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