Discipline Oversight Committee
Notice and Agenda
Friday, January 8, 2010
*
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, William Hebert at (415) 374-8370. 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: William Gailey, Angela Davis, George Davis, Clark Gehlbach, Patrick Kelly, Gwen Moore, Michael Tenenbaum, Michael Marcus, Jeannine English.
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.

* Discipline Oversight will meet at the conclusion of MIRS.

Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
A. Proposed Revisions to the State Bar Model Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations-Request for Release for Public Comment.
II. Consent
Revisions to Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations
Attachments:
Attachment for Revisions to Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations
III. Action
A. Approval of Riverside County Bar Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations. [Back-to-Back Item 54-121]
III. Action
Riverside County Bar Rules for Fee Arbitrations
Attachments:
Attachment for Riverside County Bar Rules for Fee Arbitrations
B. Designation to Review Local Bar Association Fee Arbitration Rules to Discipline Committee [Back-to-Back Item 122]
III. Action
Designation to Review Local Fee Arb Rules
Attachments:
Attachment for Designation to Review Local Fee Arb Rules
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Status Report on Surrogate Attorney Program
B. Proposed Modifications to Select Sanction Standards for Attorney Discipline
V. Reports
A. Status Report from the State Bar Court (Wong)
V. Reports
State Bar Court status report
B. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Weiner)
V. Reports
OCTC status report
C. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Wong)
V. Reports
MFA status report
D. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (Wong)
V. Reports
Client Security Fund status report
E. Status Report from the Office of Probation (Wong)
V. Reports
Status Report from Probation
Closed Session

I. Consent
II. Action
A. Resignation of Attorney Vicki Carlton [aka Vicki Terry] (Membership No. 118903) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-A]
B. Resignation of Attorney Carol E. Heron (Membership No. 135478) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-B]
C. Resignation of Attorney Eric Gwynn Lundberg (Membership No. 116845) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-C]
D. Resignation of Attorney Michael Joseph Melton (Membership No. 48323) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-D]
E. Resignation of Attorney Darron S. Miller (Membership No. 236293) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-E]
F. Resignation of Attorney Thomas Lee Schlothauer (Membership No. 56074) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-F]
G. Resignation of Attorney Graham Roderick Taylor (Membership No. 100357) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-back item Nov 3127-G]
III. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Appointment of Special Deputy Trial Counsel Pursuant to Rule 2201, Rules of Procedure of State Bar - Report of Chair
V. Reports
* Closed under Rule 6.53(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.