Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, May 10, 2012
12:30 - 2:00
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, Lowell Carruth at (559) 433-1300. 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: Clark Gehlbach, Karen Goodman, Gretchen Nelson, Patrick Kelly, Wells Lyman, Dennis Mangers, Loren Kieve, George Davis.
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
A. Oral Report  (5 minutes)
B. Call For Public Comment (1 minute)
II. Consent
III. Action
A. Suspension for Failure to Comply With Child or Family Support Order. Request For Release for Public Comment.  (Murphy/Diloreto) (4 minutes)
B. Refusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency (AB 1424, Stats. 2011, Ch. 455). Request For Release for Public Comment.  (Murphy/Diloreto) (3 minutes)
C. Proposed Modification to the Rule 31 of the State Bar Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations re: subpoenas. Request for Adoption Following Public Comment.  (Hull) [Back-to-Back 54-121] (4 minutes)
D. Proposed Modification to the Rule 30 of the State Bar Model Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations re: subpoenas. Request for Adoption Following Public Comment.  (Hull) [Back-to-Back 54-122] (2 minutes)
E. Sacramento County Bar Association Fee Mediation Rules (Hull) (3 minutes)
F. Update to Discipline Cost Formula (Hawley) [Back-to-Back May 123] (3 minutes)
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Report on ABA Resolution 108 on Military Spouse Attorneys (Murphy) (10 minutes)
B. Format of the California Bar Examination (Gayle Murphy, John McNicholas, Larry Scheingold) (22 minutes)
V. Reports
A. Status report from Admissions (Murphy) (2 minutes)
B. Status Report from the Office of Professional Competence (Difuntorum) (7 minutes)
C. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Kim) (10 minutes)
D. Status Report from the State Bar Court (Wong) (5 minutes)
E. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (Wong) (3 minutes)
F. Status Report from the Office of Probation (Wong) (3 minutes)
G. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull) (3 minutes)
Closed Session

I. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
* Closed under Rule 6.55(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.