Taecan.com and the California Alliance of Paralegal Associations (CAPA) Announce partnership to deliver MCLE to California Paralegals

Partnership will help California Paralegals meet new MCLE requirement

SEATTLE, WA. and LOS ANGELES, CA. February 25, 2002 - Taecan.com, Inc, the worlds largest aggregator of Online mandatory continuing legal education, announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with the California Alliance of Paralegal Associations ( CAPA), the largest paralegal organization in California, to deliver online MCLE to all paralegals in California.

New State Law requires California Paralegals to take MCLE

Until recently, anyone could call himself or herself a paralegal in the state of California, but that is no longer the case. Business & Professions Code §6450 has established strict new rules regulating the use of the titles “ Paralegal” and “Legal Assistant”. The new law has also added, for the first time, mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) requirements for California paralegals. Effective immediately, in addition to meeting other requirements in the statute, persons using the term “ Paralegal” or “Legal Assistant” in describing their services, must now take a minimum of 8 hours of MCLE. (4 hours of General education every 2 years and 4 hours of Ethics every 3 years).

Most paralegals are very busy professionals with significant work and family commitments. To assist them in meeting the new requirements, Taecan.com and CAPA have joined together to offer ready access to MCLE courses online. Although all paralegals may access Taecan.com courses, by special agreement, CAPA members will receive a discount on Taecan MCLE courses.

"By partnering with Taecan.com to make quality MCLE available online in a convenient and affordable way for CAPA members and nonmembers, we have taken a positive step in raising the standard of practice for paralegals in California."

Stacey Hunt, CLA, CAS
President
California Alliance of Paralegal Associations

As many professions become more specialized, mandatory continuing professional education is becoming more common in all regulated professions. The delivery of MCLE to paralegals online is a convenience being adapted widely across all professional lines.

"Partnering with CAPA is a natural extension of Taecan.com’s growing online MCLE library. Not only will California paralegals have access to the large State Bar Online library, but they will also have access to the online CLE libraries of more than 22 other counties, states and CLE providers currently partnering with Taecan.com. This alliance immediately makes a huge resource available to the California paralegal community."

Patrick Vane
CEO
Taecan.com, Inc.

About the California Alliance of Paralegals (CAPA)

Composed of 13 paralegal associations with 3000 members throughout the state of California, CAPA is dedicated to the advancement of the paralegal profession. CAPA represents paralegals working in attorney-supervised settings and encourages active relationships among its affiliates, attorneys, national, state and local bar associations, paralegal educators and others in the legal community.

About Taecan.com

Taecan is Old English for “ To teach”. Taecan.com is a Seattle based Internet company that offers a convenient and affordable alternative to seminar style “ fixed time and place” CLE seminars. The company, founded by an attorney and educator, has rapidly aggregated the largest online library of approved CLE titles in the world by partnering with Bar Associations to deploy their content over the Internet. In addition to the New York City Bar contract, Taecan.com was recently awarded the contract for the State Bar of California, the Ohio Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar and numerous others, from Alaska to Florida.