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Key Facts
- Federal level: On April 19, 2012, the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association announced they agreed to end their joint arrangement to provide education for the legal profession via ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education.
- National overview: The April 19, 2012 announcement described the change as increasing flexibility and said staff members who operated ALI-ABA would continue to work for the ALI.
- Federal level: The announcement and ALI’s related description traced the joint arrangement’s start to 1947 and connected it to continuing education demand for returning World War II lawyer-veterans.
- National overview: ALI later described the April 2012 change as an amicable end to the joint arrangement, with ALI beginning to produce CLE separately under its own name and the ABA doing so as well.
- National overview: ALI’s Annual Report 2011–2012 described the collaboration as amicably ending on April 30, 2012, with each entity moving forward on its own to produce CLE.
- Federal level: The ABA past-events archive includes an ALI-ABA sponsored CLE program listing for April 19, 2012 that covered Alternative Fee Arrangements.
- National overview: ALI’s ALI CLE Programs Update page states ALI hosts ALI CLE programs and that certificates and materials from previously viewed programs are available via myALI-CLE.
- National overview: Taken together, the primary Sources reflect a structured transition announced on April 19, 2012 and described as ending on April 30, 2012, along with present-day ALI CLE hosting and access context.
Because CLE portal content and certificate/material access details can change over time, treat the ALI CLE website wording below as current access context; this archive article primarily preserves the April 2012 historical organizational transition.
- Why this archive item matters for readers today
- Background the ALI ABA continuing professional education effort started in 1947
- April 19, 2012 ALI and ABA agreed to end the joint arrangement
- How the organizations described the operational shift after the end
- Reconciling the dates announcement on April 19 vs. ending described on April 30
- The ALI ABA label still appeared in ABA event listings around the transition
- Present day context where ALI directs readers for ALI CLE programs and materials
- Sources
Why this archive item matters for readers today
This archive recovery preserves what the April 2012 ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education partnership changes meant in organizational terms—especially for readers who encounter the ALI-ABA label in older CLE listings, program pages, and course materials.
For readers researching legal education history, the “since 1947” framing also provides context for why the transition was presented as more than routine branding or scheduling.
Legal education also appears as a recurring theme in related ABA archive coverage, including examples like ABA archives on legal education and veterans aid among issues addressed.
Background the ALI ABA continuing professional education effort started in 1947
In the April 19, 2012 announcement, the ALI and ABA described their joint arrangement as starting in 1947 and tied it to continuing education demand for returning World War II lawyer-veterans.
For readers, this “since 1947” history helps explain why the April 2012 change was described with narrative emphasis rather than as a minor operational tweak.
April 19, 2012 ALI and ABA agreed to end the joint arrangement
On April 19, 2012, the ALI and ABA announced they had agreed to end their joint arrangement to provide education for the legal profession via ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education.
The announcement also framed the transition as increasing flexibility and stated that staff members who operated ALI-ABA would continue to work for the ALI.
How the organizations described the operational shift after the end
In ALI’s later description of the transition, ALI characterized the April 2012 change as an amicable end to the joint arrangement and described a split in CLE production under each organization’s own name.
ALI’s narrative also emphasized continuity on the staff and programming side, while describing the types of ALI-ABA educational offerings that would continue under the ALI’s CLE umbrella.
Reconciling the dates announcement on April 19 vs. ending described on April 30
Different primary Sources use different date language for closely related transition points. The key is to tie each date statement to the source that uses it.
| Source | Date language used | What the text most directly supports |
|---|---|---|
| PRNewswire (announcement/agreement framing) | April 19, 2012 | The ALI and ABA agreed to end the joint ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education arrangement |
| ALI Annual Report 2011–2012 | April 30, 2012 | ALI described the ALI-ABA collaboration as ending and each entity moving forward separately to produce CLE |
The ALI ABA label still appeared in ABA event listings around the transition
Even though the transition involved an organizational structural shift, contemporaneous archive materials can still show the ALI-ABA label in continuing legal education listings.
The ABA’s past-events archive reflects an ALI-ABA sponsored CLE program listing dated April 19, 2012 that included the topic Alternative Fee Arrangements, which helps explain why ALI-ABA appeared in event listings and program context during that period.
Present day context where ALI directs readers for ALI CLE programs and materials
Today, ALI describes continuing access pathways for ALI CLE materials.
ALI’s ALI CLE Programs Update page states that ALI hosts ALI CLE programs and that certificates and materials from previously viewed programs are available via myALI-CLE.
This present-day access framing does not alter the historical partnership-change record; it describes where ALI directs readers for CLE program materials after the organizational transition.
