Board Committee on Regulation, Admissions and Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, May 10, 2007
2:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The State Bar Of California
180 Howard Street
Board Room, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 538-2000

Questions regarding any agenda item should be directed to the Committee Coordinator(s), Doug Hull at (415) 538-2015 or Chair, James Scharf at (408)535-5044. Committee members are requested to notify the Committee Coordinator as early as possible in advance of the meeting if they wish to remove any item/s from the consent agenda.
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
A. Request for Approval of Proposed Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations by the Inyo County bar Association (Sperber) [Back-to-back item 54-121]
B. Request for Approval of Proposed Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations by the Alameda County Bar Association (Sperber) [Back-to-back item 54-122]
C. Request for Approval of Proposed Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations by the Humboldt County Bar Association (Sperber) [Back-to-back item 54-123]
D. Request for Approval of Proposed Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations by the Tulare County Bar Association (Sperber) [Back-to-back item 54-121]
III. Action
A. Proposed Revisions to Paragraph 13 of the State Bar's Guidelines and Minimum Standards for the Operation of Mandatory Fee Arbitration Programs - Request for Additional Public Comment Period (Sperber)
B. Revised Draft Rules for the Registration of Unaccredited and Correspondence Law Schools – Request for Release for Public Comment (Murphy)
C. Proposed resignation with disciplinary charges pending of John R.
LaBrucherie (Drexel) [Back-to-back item May 125]
D. Proposed Amendments to Rules of regarding the State Bar Court's Alternative Discipline Program. (Rules of Procedure of the State Bar of California 800 - 807). Request for Release for Public Comment (Drexel)
IV. Discussion / Information
A. Proposal of the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel for Quarterly Meetings with the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel (Drexel)
B. Report on Submission of the Annual Discipline Report
V. Reports
A. Status Report from Admissions (Murphy)
B. Status Report from the State Bar Court (G. Scott)
C. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (S. Drexel)
D. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (S. Drexel)
E. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (S. Drexel)
F. Status Report from the Office of Probation (S. Drexel)
G. Status Report from Professional Competence (Difuntorum)
Closed Session

I. Consent
None
II. Action
None
III. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda*
Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
IV. Discussion*
A. Chief Trial Counsel Performance Review (Hawley)
* Closed under the Open and Closed Meeting Rules, art. 3, § 2(b)(1) to receive advice of counsel