Regulation and Admissions Committee
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, January 7, 2010
*1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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), Randy Difuntorum at 415-538-2161 or Chair, Michael Marcus at (310) 201-0010. 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: George Davis, James Aguirre, Lowell Carruth, Joseph Chairez, Clark Gehlbach, Rex Heinke, Cheryl Hicks, Micha Liberty, Jon Streeter.
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.

* Regulation and Admissions will meet at 1:00 p.m. or at the conclusion of Board Operations, whichever occurs first, and if necessary may break for lunch.

Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
III. Action
A. Rules of Professional Conduct, Proposed New and Amended, Batch 6, Request for Public Comment (Difuntorum)
III. Action
Rules of Professional Conduct -- Batch 6 -- Request for Public Comment
B. Rules of Professional Conduct, Proposed New and Amended, Batch 4 and Batch 1-3 Rules Referred to the Commission for Further Consideration, Return from Public Comment [Back-to-Back Item JANUARY 131] (Difuntorum)
III. Action
Rules of Professional Conduct, Proposed New and Amended, Batch 4
Attachments:
ATT 1 - Dashboards and Rule Background MaterialsATT 2 -- Full Text of Public Comments ReceivedATT 3 - Clean Version Rule Drafts, as Distributed for Public Comment
IV. Discussion/Information
V. Reports
A. Status Report from Competence (Difuntorum)
V. Reports
Professional Competence Status Report
B. Status Report from Admissions (Murphy)
V. Reports
Admissions/Bar Examiners Key Indicators
Closed Session

I. Consent
II. Action
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. Rules of Professional Conduct, Proposed New and Amended, Batch 1, Updated Legal Advice re Proposed Rule 1.8.10 - Sexual Relations with Client (Yen)
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.