1. Go to the Subscribe page and subscribe to 1 or more Discussion Groups that interest you.
   
   By subscribing, each month you'll automatically receive one of the Legal Elite's practice pointers & be able to ask your questions on the topic.
   
   
2. To see who the Legal Elites are for a certain practice area, go to Meet the Elite page. To find out more about a Legal Elite, click on their name to review their resume. (If you don't see the name of a lawyer you think should be a Legal Elite candidate, please E-mail their name to elites@legalelite.com.)
   
   
3. To see what some of the discussion topics will be for the quarter, go to the Discussion Schedule page. (If you don't see a topic that you would like to be discussed, please E-mail the desired topic to info@legalelite.com.)

B. DURING THE DISCUSSION WEEK:

Beginning and Ending Dates:
A Discussion Week begins on Friday and ends the following Friday.

What Your Receive:
If you subscribe to a certain Discussion Group, you'll automatically receive an E-mail containing any one of the following bits of information:
(i) the Legal Elite's practice pointers;
(ii) your questions, and the questions asked by others;
(iii) the Legal Elite's answers to the questions; and
(iv) the Legal Elite's proposed forms and/or clauses.

When You Receive the Email with Info.:
(i) On Friday - the 1st day of the discussion:
the "Discussion Kicker" (a short informative article, outline format, on the topic that "kicks-off" the discussion) is emailed to you.
(ii) On Wednesday:
a list of some of the questions asked as of that point are emailed to you.
(iii) On Friday - the last day:
a list of all the questions and the Legal Elite's answers are emailed to you.

Asking a Question:
(i) Go for it…anytime Friday through Thursday E-mail your questions about the topic to the Legal Elite.

(ii) To E-mail your questions, just reply to the E-mail we send you during the Discussion Week.

(iii) Don't be bashful to ask your question…names aren't included when we E-mail to participants the questions asked along with the Legal Elite's answers to them.

(iv) Since the Legal Elite only has a limited time to answer questions, not all questions will be answered.

(v) You don't have to ask a question in order to receive the E-mails containing other participants' questions and the Legal Elite's answers to them.

EVALUATION:
Since our goal is to make your life easier and give you what you want, you'll have a chance to fill out an evaluation for the discussion that's E-mailed to you after the Discussion.

(i) To earn participatory MCLE credit for your participation, at some point during the Discussion Week you must "sign in" by sending us a reply E-mail that contains your name and State Bar #.

(ii) Although participation is free, we need to charge an administrative fee of $5.00 per quarter-hour MCLE credit. See the payment chart on the MCLE Info page.

(iii) If you've signed up, then on the last day of the Discussion we'll E-mail to you a MCLE form to fill out and send to us along with a check for the amount of credits you've earned, or you may go to our website and fill out the online MCLE Form and pay online using our secure server.

(iv) We will E-mail to you a California Certificate of Attendance after we confirm you've participated in the Discussion by (i) signing-in with your name and State Bar # via E-mail during the Discussion Week, and (ii) receiving your completed MCLE Form which requires you to attest under penalty of perjury to the # of credit hours you've earned.

(v) Go to the MCLE Info page for more information