Regulation and Discipline Committee
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, July 21, 2016
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The State Bar of California
845 South Figueroa Street
Board Room, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017-2515
(213) 765-1000

Questions regarding any agenda item should be directed to the Committee Coordinator(s), Dag MacLeod at (415) 538-2102 or Chair, Miriam Krinsky at (415) 538-2170. 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.

The order of business is approximate and subject to change.
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Call For Public Comment
Oral Report (Krinsky) (10 minutes)
II. Consent
A. Status Report from Professional Competence
B. Status Report from State Bar Court
C. Status Report from Client Security Fund
D. Status Report from Office of Probation
E. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration
F. Status Report from Lawyer Assistance Program
III. Business
A. Status Report from OCTC (Dresser) (10 minutes)

  1. Statistical Reports
  2. UPL Protocol Implementation
B. Update Regarding Takeaways from Review of Selected UPL Case Processing and Law Enforcement Referrals (J. Fox/J. Lee) (10 minutes)
C. Proposed Amendment to Rule 5.441 (A) of the Rules of Procedure [July 122] (Dresser) (10 minutes)
D. Workforce Planning Updates (Wilson) (20 minutes)

  1. Working Group Progress and Focus
  2. Update on Prevention/Diversion Discussion
E. Rule of Procedure 2302 (Disclosure of Information) - Request to Release for Public Comment (Holton/Retana) (15 minutes)
F. Rule of Procedure 2201 Proposed Modifications - Request for Adoption Following Public Comment [July 121] (Holton/Torres-Gil) (15 minutes)
G. Rule 2201 Conflict Matters (Holton/Difuntorum) (20 minutes)
H. Expungement of Attorney Complaints and Discipline Matters (Retana) (20 minutes)
I. Client Trust Account Survey Report and Recommendations for Education and Outreach (Difuntorum) (15 minutes)
J. Proposed Formal COPRAC Ethics Opinion Interim No. 13-0005 - Disclosure of Publicly Available Confidential Information (Tuft) (10 minutes)
K. Update from the Annual Discipline Report Working Group (MacLeod) (10 minutes)
Closed Session

I. Consent
None
II. Business
A. Rule of Procedure 2201. Status of Pending Investigations (Holton) (15minutes)
*Closed pursuant to Business and Professions Code § 6026.5 (a)(1) and Government Code § 11126 (e)(1).

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The notice and agenda is available at http://board.calbar.ca.gov/Board.aspx.