Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Friday, July 22, 2011
9:30 - 11:00 a.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, 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. Request for approval of modifications to Bar Association of San Francisco Rules of Procedure for Attorney/Client Fee Disputes (Hull)
III. Action
A. Administrative Changes to Admissions Rules.  Request for adoption following public comment. (Murphy) [Back-to-Back JUL 121]
B. Online Posting of Consumer Alert of Significant Loan Misconduct Charges on Member’s Profile Page-Request for Adoption Following Public Comment (Sperber) [Back-to-Back Item JUL 122]
C. Request by Association of Disciplinary Defense Counsel to Consider Rule of Court for Expungement of Private Reprovals. Request for release for public comment (Sperber)
D. Imposition of Monetary Sanctions on Disciplined Lawyers in Certain Cases (Babcock)
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Assistance to OCTC with Reducing Notice/Open Inventory (Hawley)
V. Reports
A. Status Report From Admissions (Murphy)
B. Status Report from Office of Professional Competence (Difuntorum)
C. Oral Update on the Status of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Streeter/Difuntorum)
D. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Sperber)
E. Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel re: Reporting of New Discipline Matters Filed (Sperber)
F. Status Report from the State Bar Court (Wong)
G. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull)
H. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (Wong)
I. Status Report from the Office of Probation (Wong)
Closed Session

I. Action
II. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
A. Advice of Counsel re: Office of the Chief Trial Counsel and Admissions
B. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
III. Reports
A. Oral Report from Staff re: lawsuits filed by Attorney Michael T. Pines (Torres-Gil)
* 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.