STATE OF MISSISSIPPI RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION

(revised August 1, 1994)

RULE 2. SCOPE AND EXEMPTIONS

These rules shall apply to every attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Mississippi, except for the following persons who shall be exempt from the requirement of these rules:

a. All attorneys shall be exempt from the requirement of these rules for the calendar year in which they are first admitted to practice.

b. All attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Mississippi residing outside of the state and not engaged in the practice of law in Mississippi.

c. All attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Mississippi residing in the state but not engaged in the practice of law in Mississippi.

d. All full-time members of the United States Armed Forces.

e. All of the Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court, Circuit, Court of Appeals, Chancery, and County Judges, United States Magistrate Judges, Judges of the Bankruptcy Courts and the Judges of the Federal Courts. However, all members of the Judiciary are encouraged to attend and participate in continuing legal education programs.

f. The Governor of the State of Mississippi.

g. All members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

h. All members of the bar shall be exempt from the requirement of these rules on and after their seventieth birthday.

Regulations

2.1 Non-resident attorneys from other jurisdictions who are temporarily admitted to practice for a case or proceeding shall not be subject to these rules.

2.2 Any member of the Mississippi State Bar licensed to practice law in the State of Mississippi but not engaged in the practice of law in Mississippi shall endorse and claim the exemption on the Annual Report required by Rule 5.

2.3 Any full-time member of the U.S. Armed Forces shall endorse and claim the exemption on the Annual Report required by Rule 5.

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