Section 6-B3610. ANNUAL MANDATORY TRAINING - GENERALLY

 

3610.1The Attorney General shall establish and administer an annual mandatory program of continuing legal education for attorneys in the Legal Service who are employed by the Office of the Attorney General.

 

3610.2The Attorney General shall establish and administer an annual mandatory program of training to maintain and enhance the management supervisory skills of Legal Service supervisory attorneys employed in the Office of the Attorney General.

 

3610.3The Director of the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel shall establish and administer annual mandatory training programs comparable to those required under §§ 3610.1 and 3610.2, for Legal Service attorneys and supervisors in the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel and the subordinate agencies.

 

3610.4Training programs offered by the Office of the Attorney General shall, to the extent practicable, be made available with no charge to Legal Service attorneys employed by the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel and the subordinate agencies. Likewise, training programs offered by the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel for attorneys employed by that office and the subordinate agencies shall, to the extent practicable, be made available with no charge to attorneys in the Office of the Attorney General.

 

3610.5The Attorney General shall designate a Training Director to oversee, arrange, and approve mandatory training programs and requirements for attorneys in the Office of the Attorney General.

 

3610.6Any decision of the Training Director is subject to direction and review by the Attorney General or the Attorney General's designee.

 

3610.7Annual mandatory training requirements shall be completed during each rating period.

 

3610.8Any attorney for whom compliance with any of the training requirements of this chapter is inordinately difficult due to a severe, prolonged illness, a disability, or other good cause, may seek a waiver from mandatory training requirements.  An attorney may do so by submitting a request to the Training Director for attorneys employed by the Office of the Attorney General or to the Director for attorneys employed by the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel or the subordinate agencies, as applicable. The request for a waiver shall include any appropriate or required supporting material or documentation.

 

3610.9A waiver request shall be promptly submitted when the grounds for the waiver request become known to the attorney. Failure to request a waiver in a timely manner may be considered by the Training Director or the Director in determining whether to grant a waiver.

 

3610.10A waiver shall be valid for a specific time period granted by the Training Director or the Director not to exceed one year, unless renewed or extended.

 

3610.11Failure to comply with the training requirements of this chapter during a rating period, without receiving a waiver, shall be considered by a supervisor in evaluating an attorney and setting the overall rating.

 

3610.12All training requests for credit to satisfy mandatory requirements shall be submitted to the Training Director or the Director, as applicable, for authorization and approval before participation in any in-house or other training.

 

3610.13A credit hour shall be equivalent to sixty (60) minutes of instruction.

 

3610.14The Training Director and Director, as applicable, shall issue written procedures with respect to making requests for training, obtaining prior approval of training, and other requirements.

 

3610.15When an attorney fails to complete training for which the District has incurred an expense, the expenses incurred shall be repaid to the District by the attorney if the Training Director or Director determines that the attorney unjustifiably failed to complete the training.

 

3610.16Attorneys in the Legal Service who are newly-appointed within one hundred-twenty (120) days of the end of a rating period shall not be required to complete any training during that rating period. Any attorney in the Legal Service who is newly-appointed more than one hundred-twenty (120) days prior to the end of the rating period, shall be required to complete a pro rata portion of the training requirements for the rating year in which he or she is appointed.

 

3610.17Attorneys shall evaluate training programs attended on forms provided for such purpose.

 

3610.18The Training Director and the Director shall maintain records of payments made for travel, tuition, and fees, and other necessary expenses of training. The official record of such expenses for the Office of the Attorney General shall be the record kept by the Financial Officer for the Office of the Attorney General.

 

3610.19An attorney assigned to full-time training shall be counted as being in full pay status, up to a maximum of eight (8) hours a day or forty (40) hours a week.

 

3610.20An attorney assigned to training on less than a full-time basis shall be counted as being in pay status the same number of hours spent in instruction plus necessary travel time.

 

3610.21An attorney selected for non-mandatory training in a non-District facility shall agree in writing to continue in the service of the subordinate agency after the end of the training for a period of time at least equal to the length of the training period.

 

 

authority

Section 861 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective April 20, 1999 (D.C. Law 12-260; D.C. Official Code § 1-608.61 (2012 Repl.)), as amended by the Elected Attorney General Implementation and Legal Service Establishment Technical Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 (“Implementation Act”), enacted July 14, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-377; 61 DCR 7598 (August 1, 2014)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 7371 (September 28, 2000); as amended by Final Rulemaking 54 DCR 12269 (December 21, 2007); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 12182 (November 28, 2014).