Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Friday, January 7, 2011
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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, Joseph Chairez at (714) 754-6600. 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.

Committee Members: Gwen Moore, Angela Davis, William Gailey, James Aguirre, Alec Chang, Clark Gehlbach, Luis Rodriguez, Michael Tenenbaum, Jon Streeter.
The order of business is approximate and subject to change.

For meetings of the Board and Board Committees. Committee meetings and items scheduled for a particular day may be moved to an earlier or later day to facilitate business of the Board and Board Committees.

The order of business is approximate and subject to change.
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
A. Approval of Palo Alto Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations (Wong)
B. Approval of Glendale Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations (Wong)
C. Approval Santa Clara County Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations (Wong)
III. Action
A. Rules of Professional Conduct Proposed New and Amended, Reconsideration of Proposed Rule 7.5(c) re Restriction on the Name of a Public Officer in a Law Firm Name (Difuntorum) [Back-to-back item Jan 121]
B. Administrative Changes to Admissions Rules (Request for Release for Public Comment) (Murphy)
C. Amendments to Rule of Court 9.21 re Resignations with Charges Pending (Request for release for public comment) (Babcock)
D. Adjustment to Cost Assessment Formula Business and Professions Code Section 6086.10 (Hawley)[Back-to-back item Jan 122]
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Oral Report re: Chief Trial Counsel Review Process (Streeter/Hawley)
V. Reports
A. Status report from Admissions (Murphy)
B. Status Report from the Office of Professional Competence (Difuntorum)
C. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Towery)
D. Status Report from the State Bar Court (Wong)
E. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Wong)
F. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (Wong)
G. Status Report from the Office of Probation (Wong)
Closed Session

I. Consent
II. Action
III. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
A. Advice of Counsel re: Rules of Professional Conduct Proposed New and Amended, Reconsideration of Proposed Rule 7.5(c) re Restriction on the Name of a Public Officer in a Law Firm Name
IV. Discussion/Information
V. Reports
* Closed under Rule 6.53(A)(1) of the Rules of the State Bar to receive advice of counsel.

** Closed under Bus. & Prof. Code § 6026.5(d) to consider a personnel matter.

*** Closed under Bus. & Prof. Code § 6026.5(e) to consider a matter involving a disciplinary investigation or proceeding.