Board Operations
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, May 12, 2011
1:00 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), Cathy Torney at (415) 538-2337 or Chair, William Hebert at (415) 374-8370. 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: George Davis, Jeannine English, Angela Davis, Laura Chick, Jon Streeter, Michael Tenenbaum, Joseph Chairez, Joseph Dunn.
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
NONE
III. Action
A. Referrals to Other Committees
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Policy on State Bar President and Officers Making Public Communications or Statements in Official Capacity
B. Open Meeting Rules and Board Member Contacts
V. Reports
A. Consideration of ABA's Request for Approval by the State Bar of a Joint Letter by State Bars to Members of Congress in Support of Continued Funding of Legal Services Corporation, Report of Action taken March 28, 2011, by the Board Committee on Operations on Behalf of the Board Between Meetings. (MAY 111)
B. Executive Director Goals and Objectives Status Report
Closed Session

I. Consent
NONE
II. Action
NONE
III. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
A. Policy on State Bar President and Officers Making Public Communications or Statements in Official Capacity - advice re **
B. Open Meeting Rules and Board Member Contacts - advice re **
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Labor Negotiations Update ****
V. Reports
A. OGC Litigation Report *
B. Executive Director Goals and Objectives Status Report ***
The rules of the State Bar permit Board members who are not committee members to participate but not vote in the committee meeting. If a majority of Board members is present, the meeting is a meeting of the Board as a whole but no formal action by the full Board will take place.

* Closed under Bus. & Prof. Code § 6026.5(a) to consult with counsel concerning pending or prospective litigation.

** 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 personnel matters.

**** Closed under Rule 6.53(A)(2) of the Rules of the State Bar to confer regarding union or labor matters.

***** Closed under Rule 6.53(A)(3) of the Rules of the State Bar to confer regarding the negotiation of the purchase, sale, exchange or lease of real property.