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)
II. Action
Marin County Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations
Attachments:
Marin County Bar Association Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations ATT A
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)
II. Action
Refusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency
Attachments:
Refusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency Attachment ARefusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency Attachment BRefusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency Attachment CRefusal-of-Admission and Suspension for Tax Delinquency Attachment C ADA Compliant
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)
II. Action
Proposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order
Attachments:
Proposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order ATT AProposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order ATT A remediatedProposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order ATT BProposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order ATT B remediatedProposed Rule for Suspension to Comply with Child or Family Support Order ATT C
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)
II. Action
Amendments to Accredited Law School Rules
Attachments:
Amendments to Accredited Law School Rules ATT AAmendments to Accredited Law School Rules ATT B
E. Chief Trial Counsel Annual Performance Evaluation Procedure (Hawley) [Back-to-Back JUL 123] (10 Minutes)
II. Action
Chief Trial Counsel Annual Performance Evaluation Procedure
Attachments:
Chief Trial Counsel Annual Performance Evaluation Procedure ATT 1Chief Trial Counsel Annual Performance Evaluation Procedure ATT 2
III. Reports
A. Status Report from Admissions (Murphy) (7 minutes)
III. Reports
Admissions Status Report
B. Status Report from the Office of Professional Competence (Difuntorum) (7 minutes)
III. Reports
Report from Professional Competence
C. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Kim) (12 minutes)
III. Reports
Status Report from OCTC
D. Discipline Metrics Report for Second Quarter, 2012 (Chiappetta) (10 minutes)
E. Status Report from State Bar Court (Wong) (3 minutes)
III. Reports
State Bar Court status report
F. Status Report from Client Security Fund (Wong) (7 minutes)
III. Reports
Report from Client Security Fund
G. Status Report from Office of Probation (Wong) (3 minutes)
III. Reports
Probation status report
H. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull) (3 minutes)
III. Reports
Mandatory Fee Arbitration Report
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.