Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, July 19, 2012
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 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, 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) (Goodman)
B. Call for Public Comment (Goodman)
II. Action
A. Proposed Revisions to Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations by the Marin County Bar Association's Client Relations Committee (Doug Hull) (3 minutes)
B. Refusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency. Request for adoption following Public Comment (AB 1424, Stats. 2011, Ch. 455) (Gayle Murphy/Dina DiLoreto) [Back-to-Back Item JUL 121] (5 minutes)
C. Suspension for Failure to Comply With Child or Family Support Order. Request For Adoption following for Public Comment. [Back-to-Back Item JUL 122 (Gayle Murphy/Dina Diloreto) (5 minutes)
D. Proposed Amendment to Accredited Law School Rules re Minimum, Cumulative Bar Pass Rate for California Accredited Law Schools. Request for Release for Public Comment (Gayle Murphy) (10 minutes)
E. Chief Trial Counsel Annual Performance Evaluation Procedure (Hawley) [Back-to-Back JUL 123] (10 Minutes)
III. Reports
A. Status Report from Admissions (Murphy) (7 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) (12 minutes)
D. Discipline Metrics Report for Second Quarter, 2012 (Chiappetta) (10 minutes)
E. Status Report from State Bar Court (Wong) (3 minutes)
F. Status Report from Client Security Fund (Wong) (7 minutes)
G. Status Report from Office of Probation (Wong) (3 minutes)
H. 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.