Board of Trustees
and
Regulation and Discipline Committee
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, November 6, 2014
2:30 - 4:45
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, Dennis Mangers at (415) 538-2276. 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: Glenda Corcoran, Miriam Krinsky, Danette Meyers, David Pasternak, Heather Rosing, Hernán Vera.
The order of business is approximate and subject to change.
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
A. Oral Report (10 mins.)
B. Committee's Goals and Objectives (10 minutes)
C. Call for Public Comment (1 min.)
II. Action
A. Discipline Standards Task Force--Recommendations for Revisions.  Request for Release for Public Comment.  (Karen Goodman) (20 mins)
B. Request for Adoption of Model Rules for Fee Mediation (Hull) [Back-to-Back item 121] (8 min.)
C. Establishment and Appointments to Second Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct [Back-to-Back Item 123](10 minutes)
III. Reports
A. Status Report from Office of Chief Trial Counsel (Kim) (8 mins.)
B. Status Report from Competence Unit (Difuntorum) (6 min.)
C. Status Report from State Bar Court (Wong) (6 mins.)
D. Status Report from Client Security Fund (Wong/Meloch) (8 mins.)
E. Status Report from Office of Probation (Wong) (1 min.)
F. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull) (1 min.)
Closed Session

I. Action
A. Chief Trial Counsel Evaluation (Hawley)  [Back-to-back Item122] (45 mins.)
* 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.