Board of Trustees
and
Regulation, Admissions & Discipline Oversight
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, March 6, 2014
2:00 - 4:00
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), Doug Hull at (415) 538-2015 or Chair, Heather Rosing at (619) 239-8131. 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: Michael Colantuono, Glenda Corcoran, Craig Holden, Miriam Krinsky, Dennis Mangers, David Pasternak, Mark Shem, David Torres.
The order of business is approximate and subject to change.
Open Session

I. Chair's and Vice Chair's Report
A. Call for Public Comment (1 minute)
B. Oral Report/Review of 2013-2014 RAD Goals (10 min)
II. Action
A. Proposed Modifications to Rules of Procedure of the State Bar of California. Request for Adoption Following Public Comment (Wong/Remke) [Back-to-Back MAR 121] (5 minutes)
II. Action
Proposed Modifications to the Rules of Procedure
Attachments:
Proposed Modifications to the Rules of Procedure ATT A (Redlined version)Proposed Modifications to the Rules of Procedure ATT A (ADA Compliant version)Proposed Modifications to the Rules of Procedure ATT BProposed Modifications to the Rules of Procedure ATT C
B. Proposed Resolution re: Matters to be Included In the Annual Discipline Report and Reports to RAD (Rosing/Mangers) (20 minutes)
II. Action
Matters to be included in Annual Discipline Report
Attachments:
Matters to be included in Annual Discipline Report (Attachment A)
III. Discussion/Information
A. Client Security Fund Commission, Presentation by Commissioner (Jonathan Libby) (10 minutes)
III. Discussion/Information
CSF statistical report
B. Status of Client Security Fund funding (10 minutes)
C. Committee of Bar Examiners, Presentation by Chair (Larry Sheingold) (15 minutes)
D. Status Report From Admissions (Murphy) (5 minutes)
III. Discussion/Information
Admissions Status Report
E. Discussion re: Preventative Ethics Training (10 minutes)
III. Discussion/Information
Ethics trainings offered by the State Bar
F. Discussion re: Proposal to Audit Client Trust Accounts (15 minutes)
III. Discussion/Information
Memo re auditing CTAs
IV. Reports
A. Status Report from Competence (Difuntorum) (5 minutes)
IV. Reports
Status Report from Competence Unit
B. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Kim) (5 minutes)
IV. Reports
Status Report from OCTC
C. Status Report from State Bar Court (Wong) (2 minutes)
IV. Reports
State Bar Court Status ReportState Bar Court Status Report (ADA Compliant)
D. Status Report from Probation (Wong) (1 minutes)
IV. Reports
Status Report from Probation
E. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Hull) (1 minutes)
IV. Reports
Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration
Closed Session

I. Consent
II. Action
III. Discussion/Information
IV. Reports
* 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.