The Commission's policy is to accredit all law office management programming that bears a direct relationship to either the substantive practice of law or ethical/professional responsibilities arising out of the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility or other duties to clients (including malpractice avoidance).

The following are illustrative, non-exclusive examples of programming that is accreditable under the standard set forth above: ethical duties and proper office or attorney procedures and/or systems concerning fee contracts, withdrawal from representation, handling of client files, advertising and solicitation, calendars, dockets and tickler systems, confidentiality, trust accounts, conflict screening and avoidance, communication with clients, malpractice risk management, and grievance procedures; employment law relating to lawyers and law offices; law office disaster planning; and legal research skill or system training.

Examples of programming that is not accreditable under this standard include courses that are limited to client cultivation; marketing; the economics or profitability of law practice; non-legal skills development, such as efficiency training, speed reading, stress reduction or motivational type presentations; and business management training, computer or information systems or other similar general programming that does not bear a direct relationship to either the substantive practice of law or duties of lawyers to clients as described above.