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Mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirements.
As of 2026-09-04, 22 of 130 countries and entities have a binding rule for mandatory AI training, 9 have official guidance, 1 have a proposal, 0 are set by case law, 95 were checked with nothing found and 3 remain unclear. Binding countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden.
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Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds Austrian firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025, and the ÖRAK Leitfaden converts this into a hard precondition: AI may only be used if staff have KI-Kompetenz, maintained through regular training. No mandatory AI CLE hours.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds law firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025. No Belgian mandatory AI CLE; the OVB runs voluntary AI seminars for the profession.
EU AI Act Article 4 creates an AI-literacy duty for deployers; it is not a Bulgarian CLE rule. No mandatory bar AI training requirement was located.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
Judiciary only: Acuerdo PCSJA24-12243 article 13 requires the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Judicial School to run an AI training plan, and the November 2025 Supreme Court ruling ordered the School to disseminate the decision. There is no mandatory continuing education for lawyers.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to Czech firms as deployers since 2 Feb 2025. No domestic CLE rule names AI, but the draft ČAK AI Strategy proposes mandatory AI training for trainee lawyers [koncipienti], expected to be presented September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No Danish CLE rule naming AI; AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to firms as deployers. Danske Advokater runs a voluntary AI network and training for members.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No Estonian CLE rule names AI. The AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025; the Bar's December 2024 guide is the profession's non-mandatory training material.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
AI Act Art. 4 imposes an outcome-based AI literacy duty on deployers from 2 Feb 2025, but prescribes no course, hours or certification; the Commission Q&A confirms organisations choose the approach and should document it. No EU CLE mandate for lawyers.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
AI Act Art. 4 imposes the outcome-based literacy duty on firms as deployers. B 05.1 point 1 additionally requires documented security training, evidenced on request in the same way as continuing education under B 9. B 05.2 Annex 5 point 6 requires literacy to be maintained as systems change.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act has required deployers — including law firms and courts — to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff since 2 Feb 2025. No French mandatory AI CLE: the CNB's Skilia/Lefebvre Dalloz course (10,000+ enrolments, open to 2027) is voluntary, and the Ministry of Justice offers non-compulsory modules to court staff.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act obliges deployers, including law firms, to ensure sufficient AI literacy from 2 Feb 2025; BRAK §5.1 spells out what that means for a Kanzlei. The general § 43a(6) BRAO continuing-education duty is not AI-specific and there is no mandatory German AI CLE.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
EU AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to Hungarian firms as deployers since 2 Feb 2025. No domestic CLE requirement naming AI was confirmed; the MÜK training rules could not be checked.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds Irish firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025 and the Law Society guidance v4 tells firms to address it for staff. No mandatory AI CPD hours.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Law 132/2025 article 15(4) obliges the Minister of Justice to promote AI teaching in the training programme for magistrates, covering basic and advanced digital skills and the benefits and risks of AI, and to train administrative staff. There is no mandatory AI training for lawyers.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No Latvian CLE requirement names AI. The AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025; the Collegium has published no AI training programme.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No Lithuanian CLE rule names AI. The AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to firms as deployers. The Bar's IT and AI Committee ran a full-day practical course, 'AI in the advocate's practice: opportunities, tools and safe use', on 9 September 2026; attendance is voluntary.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds Luxembourg firms as deployers from 2 Feb 2025. No Luxembourg mandatory AI CLE found.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Article 4 of the EU AI Act binds law firms and courts as deployers from 2 Feb 2025; the NOvA recommendations state that AI use creates obligations under the AI-verordening and tell lawyers to keep knowledge current 'via permanente educatie' and to raise it in structured feedback for quality review. There is no dedicated mandatory AI PE point requirement.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No AI-specific CLE mandate. KIRP Recommendations 17 and 20 tie internal AI training to the AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty and urge regular refreshers. NRA runs voluntary AI training and surveyed AI use by advocates nationally.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
EU AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to Romanian firms as deployers since 2 Feb 2025. Romania has mandatory continuing professional training for lawyers via INPPA, but no AI-specific requirement was confirmed.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Resolution Art. 5 imposes a continuing self-education duty on lawyers using AI and requires the Bar to provide methodological guidance, training and model AI policies. Guidance Art. 3(4) adds a duty of demonstrable staff training. EU AI Act Art. 4 applies in parallel.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No AI-specific CLE rule, but bar guidance s.5 says firms should ensure staff receive adequate GenAI training scaled to how the firm uses it, and notes the AI Act may require firms to ensure sufficient staff knowledge. Advokatakademien launched a voluntary AI course in April 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
PERADI's guideline commits the association to encourage continuing education and training so that all members have adequate technology literacy, and AI content is appearing in advocate training (PKPA). There is no mandatory AI CLE requirement.
International bodies · verified 2026-09-04
Recommended but never mandatory: the 2025 UNESCO Guidelines tell judicial organisations to run AI training programmes; CCJE Opinion No. 26 says judges must be kept up to date on technology; the IBA and CAIDP report recommends AI-literacy programmes. UNESCO also runs a judges' MOOC.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
The ICT Policy commits to awareness and training on AI benefits and risks for judges, court officials, Nepal Bar Association members and court users. It is not mandatory continuing education.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
The NJPMC guidelines provide for structured AI training for judges and court staff, and the Judge-GPT trial ran six ninety-minute training sessions with the Federal Judicial Academy. There is no requirement for lawyers.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
The Framework directs PHILJA to run AI certificate training for the Bench and encourages the IBP to use continuing legal education for AI training; the AI Committee is to study AI competency standards. MCLE under Bar Matter No. 850 has no AI-specific unit requirement.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
CSM principle 9: judges must receive training on AI in the administration of justice. Bar training is voluntary.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Instruccion 2/2026 commits the CGPJ to provide AI training for judges, though not as a duty on each judge. The CGAE white paper and the Madrid Bar guide recommend training, and Circular 3/2026 lists knowing the tools as a diligence factor. There is no mandatory AI continuing education.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
Recommended, not mandatory. The TBB Guide sets out a training matrix: an AI literacy, professional secrecy and data security module in trainee (staj) education; basic, intermediate and advanced in-service modules; office-wide rules training; and a TBB-coordinated trainer pool and materials standard for the bars.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
Judicial side only. The Supreme People's Court ran a nationwide AI training conference for the court system on 20 January 2026 across roughly 400 connection points. Nothing equivalent was found for lawyers.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory requirement in force. Resolution 5.5 of the 2026 Judiciary Conference directs the Judiciary to provide ongoing education on responsible AI use, including prompt design and verification, while maintaining legal research, reasoning and judgment-writing skills.
No countries in this status.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026; the Buenos Aires bar offers voluntary courses.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI-specific CPD requirement found in any Australian jurisdiction as of 4 September 2026. Law societies (Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales, ACT) offer voluntary AI CPD and resource hubs, and QLS frames AI awareness as part of maintaining competence.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory requirement for legal professionals as of 4 September 2026. The iGA policy's third pillar requires government entities to run AI awareness and training for their own employees; Bahraini judges and prosecutors attended voluntary UNESCO training in December 2024.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training for lawyers or judges. The OAB National AI Plan of June 2026 expands voluntary courses only. No rule was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI continuing professional development requirement found in any Canadian jurisdiction as of 4 September 2026. The Barreau du Québec has delivered voluntary AI training since 25 October 2024 and plans repeat sessions.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training for judges or lawyers found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026; bar academy seminars are voluntary.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory requirement as of 4 September 2026. Training is voluntary: Egyptian Bar Association / MCIT generative-AI workshops for lawyers since October 2025, and a UNESCO-Public Prosecution course for judges and prosecutors in March 2026, after which the Public Prosecution said it would fold AI training into national programmes.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
no rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
Icelandic lawyers are subject to continuing-education requirements, but no AI-specific training mandate was found as of 4 September 2026. AI Act Art. 4 is not in force for Iceland absent EEA incorporation.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training or continuing education for advocates. The Gujarat High Court policy provides for training of judicial officers and staff, and the draft Supreme Court regulations contemplate capacity building through CoRE-AI.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
The national strategy includes AI education and training programmes generally, but no mandatory AI training or CLE requirement for lawyers or judges was found.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training requirement for Israeli lawyers found as of 4 September 2026. On the judicial side Procedure 01-26 conditions use of AI tools on appropriate prior training, but that obligation is internal to the judiciary.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training. The LSK ICT and AI Committee proposes upskilling; no Council of Legal Education or Kenya School of Law AI requirement was found.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory requirement as of 4 September 2026. Kuwait Bar Association AI events are voluntary awareness activities.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training or CPD requirement. Circular 242/2025 only encourages firms to conduct regular training on generative AI and its risks.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
Mexico has no mandatory continuing legal education, so there is no mandatory AI training requirement.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory requirement as of 4 September 2026. The September 2025 CSPJ-UNESCO consultation called for training judges, prosecutors, clerks and lawyers on the legal and ethical issues of AI, but no compulsory training exists.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI-specific CPD requirement. New Zealand lawyers' CPD is self-directed under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Ongoing Legal Education) Rules 2013; the Law Society's AI guidance is framed as competence support rather than a training mandate.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Africa · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training. NBA-SLP Guidelines s.9 recommend AI literacy and continuous education; the Taraba State Judiciary ran AI training for High Court judges, but nothing is required by the NBA or the National Judicial Institute.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training for Norwegian lawyers; Advokatforeningen and Juristforbundet offer voluntary courses and webinars.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training requirement. The June 2026 UNESCO/Supreme Judiciary Council judicial training was a voluntary programme.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
The Ministry of Justice training gathered judges, prosecutors, attorneys and judicial operators, but no mandatory AI training or CLE requirement was found.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training or CLE requirement for Saudi lawyers or judges found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026; the judges' guidebook is educational.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
The EU AI Act's Art. 4 literacy duty does not bind Swiss firms directly and there is no Swiss mandatory AI training requirement. The SAV recommends internal firm directives and training instead.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
Middle East · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training or CLE requirement found. The Abu Dhabi Judicial Academy has added AI topics to its programmes for lawyers seeking rights of audience, but this is not a published rule.
Europe · verified 2026-09-04
No mandatory AI training requirement found as of 4 September 2026. Continuing competence is outcomes-based for both solicitors and barristers.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No federal mandatory AI training requirement. Continuing legal education is a state function; several states have added technology or AI credits, which are scored in the state matrix.
Americas · verified 2026-09-04
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
Not established. No mandatory AI component in the Law Society's Continuing Professional Development scheme was located; the PCPD Model Framework recommends AI training for employees generally.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
Not established. No mandatory AI component in the Singapore Institute of Legal Education CPD scheme was located; the MinLaw guide encourages firms to train staff before deployment but does not mandate it.
Asia-Pacific · verified 2026-09-04
Not substantiated. No mandatory AI training or continuing education requirement for Thai lawyers was located.
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Mandatory AI training" by country, https://safelegalai.com/regulation/category/training-cle (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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