Board Of Trustees & Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, May 9, 2013
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 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, Karen Goodman at (916) 643-0600. 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: Craig Holden, Loren Kieve, Dennis Mangers, Pearl Mann, Gretchen Nelson, David Pasternak, Luis Rodriguez.
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. Request for Approval of Modifications to San Mateo County Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations (Hull) (2 minutes)
B. Request for Approval of Modification of the Rules of Procedure For the Hearing of Fee Arbitrations & Mediations by the Contra Costa County Bar Association (Hull) (2 minutes)
C. Request for Modification of Board Policy re Posting of Consumer Alerts [Back-to-Back Item MAY 121] (Kim) (15 minutes)
D. Proposed Amendment to Rules of Procedure of the State Bar, rule 5.41, Authorizing “Notice Pleading” in Notice of Disciplinary Charges.  Request for Adoption following Public Comment [Back-to-Back Item MAY 122] (Kim) (15 minutes)
E. Proposed Amendment to Accredited Law School Rules re Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Standard. Request for Adoption Following Public Comment  [Back-to-Back Item MAY 123] (Murphy) (5 minutes)
F. Proposal re: Refusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency (AB 1424, Stats. 2011, Ch. 455). Request for Release For Public Comment (Murphy/DiLoreto) (10 minutes)
G. Proposed Amendments to Rule of Court 9.22 and State Bar Rule 2.34 re: Suspension For Failure To Comply With Child Or Family Support Order. Request for Release For Public Comment (DiLoreto) (5 minutes)
III. Discussion/Information
A. Oral Report re: Task Force on Admissions Regulation Reform (Mangers) (5 minutes)
B. Oral Report from Limited License Working Group (Holden) (5 minutes)
C. Oral Report Re: Standards for Attorney Sanctions for Professional Misconduct, Proposed Modifications, (Rick Zanassi/Mary Yen) (5 minutes)
D. Oral report re: Institutionalized Backlog Control (Hawley) (5 minutes)
IV. Reports
A. Status Report from Admissions (Murphy) (5 minutes)
B. Status Report from Professional Competence (Difuntorum) (5 minutes)
C. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Kim) (5 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) (2 minutes)
G. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull) (3 minutes)
Closed Session

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* 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.

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