Fall Break, CLE Break: Knock Out Your Oklahoma CLE Hours

The kids are out of school and the office has gone quiet. That's the best CLE window you'll get before the December rush.

Fall break feels strange to a practicing lawyer. Kids are home. Half your office is at a pumpkin patch, a deer lease, or Granny's house. Opposing counsel's autoreply says they'll be back Monday. The docket thins out just a touch.

If you're home with the kids, there's still a stretch every day when nobody needs you. That's a CLE hour. Use it.

The math, from here to December 31

The Oklahoma requirement hasn't changed: 12 credits by December 31, at least 2 of them ethics. There is no cap on online, on-demand credit; all 12 can come from recorded courses.

From this weekend to December 31 is about eleven weeks. If you haven't started yet, you need more than one credit per week. Do one hour a day during fall break and the rest of the year gets easier still.

The alternative is the version of December most of us know: year-end closings, holiday parties, and every lawyer in the state hunting for that last-minute ethics hour.

Why fall break works for on-demand CLE

One hour is one sitting. Most OkieCLE credit hours run just over 50 minutes. Start it with your coffee; finish it before anyone asks about lunch.
No drive, no sign-in sheet, no blocked-out afternoon. Kitchen table, headphones, done.
Get the ethics hours out of the way first. They're the ones people scramble for in December. Two ethics hours now and the remaining ten can be whatever's most useful to your practice.
Extra hours aren't wasted. Credits beyond the 12-hour minimum carry forward to the next year (one year's requirement, max), so finishing early doesn't cost you anything. While we don't guarantee our courses stay accredited forever, they will generally stay active into next year, so you can be ready to get a jump on 2027 or bank some carryover into 2028.

A fall-break plan

Today or tomorrow: one ethics hour. Try Questioning Authority or Disqualification.

This weekend: one hour you'll actually use on Monday. A few that work well on a quiet morning:

Next week, once the kids are back: one more. That's three hours down before Halloween and nine left with about nine weeks to do them.

FINISH THE YEAR IN ONE PURCHASE

OkieCLE bundles cover the ethics hours and then some.

7-Hour Bundle (2 ethics) · 9-Hour Bundle (3 ethics) · 11-Hour Bundle (5 ethics). On demand, OKMCLE approved, watch on your schedule.

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Missed fall break?

Thanksgiving is the next quiet stretch, and every course here works just as well at 6 a.m. on a regular Tuesday. The point isn't the break. It's not leaving all twelve hours for the last two weeks of December.

Ready to finish your year? Browse our Oklahoma CLE courses.