Bench & Bar May/June 2025

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION

Doing Great Things KBA CLE BY ERIC M. WEIHE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ERIC M. WEIHE is senior counsel – Litigation for PPL Services Corporation/ LG&E and K.U. His broad depth of expe rience includes personal injury litigation, commercial litigation, medical negligence defense, and insurance defense. Weihe received his B.A., cum laude , from Tran sylvania University and his J.D. from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. to make it a point to put both the KLU and KBA Convention on your calendars each year and try to attend whenever possible. Before concluding this article and putting a bow on my tenure on the CLE Commission, I want to thank KBA CLE Commission Director Cassie Cooper and the CLE and KBA support staff for all their hard work and support over the years. I know that CLE in Kentucky is in good hands and the Ken tucky Bar will continue to have top notch CLE offerings. It has been a great pleasure serving on the CLE Commission these last six years, and I look forward to seeing you all out soon at upcoming CLEs! The KBA Annual Convention also offers both live and virtual CLEs. At this year’s in-person Convention in Lexington, Ky., on June 5-6, there are 30 CLE programs offered with an opportunity to obtain 6 CLE credits (including 2 ethics) per day. There is also an on-demand offering of 6 CLE credits (including 2 ethics) available between May 1-June 30, 2025, that is included with Convention registration or that can be purchased separately. While it can be more convenient to satisfy your CLE obligations through on-demand or recorded programming, there is a lot to be said for showing up and attending programs in person. Both the KLU and KBA Convention are two of the best in-person programs around and they always offer incredible CLEs at great value. They also provide a wonderful opportunity to network, recon nect, and share war stories with former classmates, colleagues, friends, and foes alike. I encourage all

A s my six-year tenure on the Ken tucky Bar Association (KBA) Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Commission comes to an end, I want to take a moment to highlight some of the great work done by the KBA CLE department and the CLE opportunities and programs available to Kentucky lawyers. In the current bar year (July 1, 2024 to pres ent), the KBA CLE Commission and KBA CLE Department have approved on average approximately 1,000 programs per month. That equates to over 30 CLE offerings to Kentucky lawyers per day, an astounding number. The programs approved cover every type of law imaginable to ensure that attorneys are not merely checking a box when fulfilling their CLE requirements, but are instead able to attend programs that apply to their practice and improve their professional competency. Attorneys often even choose to attend programs that address subjects far outside of their normal practice to learn something new or hear about something interesting to them. There truly is something available for every one to obtain the required 12 CLE credit

hours (including 2 ethics) by the end of the educational year on June 30 th and have suf ficient credit hours reported by the August 10 th deadline. THE KENTUCKY LAW UPDATE (KLU) AND KBA ANNUAL CONVENTION ARE MY TWO FAVORITE CLE PROGRAMS. The KLU is a COMPLIMENTARY pro gram that offers a hybrid of both live and virtual CLEs. As has been the case for many years, in-person programming was offered between August-December 2024 at a location in each of our Commonwealth’s seven Supreme Court Districts with 7 CLE credits available, including 2 ethics credits. Additionally, 7.25 CLE credits, including 2 ethics credits, were available online until December 31, 2024. Thanks to the foresight of our Kentucky Supreme Court justices in wanting to lessen the financial burden on Kentucky attorneys to complete all of their required CLE, the KLU is offered AT NO COST to all KBA members pursuant to Kentucky Supreme Court Rule 3.635.

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