Specialists that submitted a 2022 Recertification Application will receive official correspondence regarding their status after the board meets in February 2023.

These lawyers met all of the requirements to be certified by the Board of Legal Specialization on August 10, 2022, and December 9, 2022.

The State Bar Council recently published proposed changes to the structure of continuing legal education in North Carolina. When these proposed amendments were introduced at the April 2022 council meeting, one of the first questions asked by a State Bar councilor was, “How will these changes impact specialization CLE requirements?”