Discipline Oversight Committee
Notice and Agenda
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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The State Bar Of California
1149 South Hill Street
Board Room, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90015-2299
(213) 765-1000

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.

* DOC will meet at the conclusion of BOPS
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
A. Approval of Revision to Notice of Your Rights After Arbitration Form. Request for Release for Public Comment
B. Proposed Revisions to the State Bar Guidelines and Minimum Standards for the Operation of Mandatory Fee Arbitration Programs-Request for Release for Public Comment
III. Action
A. Yolo County Bar Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations
B. North San Diego Bar Rules of Procedure for Fee Arbitrations
C. Proposed Revisions to the Fee Arbitration Model Rules. Request for Adoption Following Public Comment (Back-To-Back Item Mar 121)
D. Revisions to the State Bar’s Sample Fee Agreements (Back-to-Back Item Mar 122)
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Presentation from State Bar Court Regarding Update to the Rules of Procedure of the State Bar of California (Judge Joann Remke, Bill Hebert)
V. Reports
A. Status Report from the State Bar Court (Wong)
B. Status Report from the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (Weiner)
C. Status Report from Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Wong)
D. Report from Fee Arbitration.  Summary of Year-End Accomplishments from Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee
E. Status Report from the Client Security Fund (Wong)
F. Status Report from the Office of Probation (Wong)
Closed Session

I. Consent
II. Action
Review of Resignations Previously Submitted to the Supreme Court (BOG agenda items 3127-A through 3127-DD)
A. Resignation of Attorney David Irvin Abrams (Membership No. 133545) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-A]
B. Resignation of Attorney Nabile John Anz (Membership No. 183324) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-B]
C. Resignation of Attorney Eric Michael Borgerson (Membership No. 177943) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-C]
D. Resignation of Attorney Marguerite M. Buckley (Membership No. 33312) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-D]
E. Resignation of Attorney Peter Terrence Chamberlin (Membership No. 53281) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-E]
F. Resignation of Attorney Kenneth Martin Christison (Membership No. 52281) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-F]
G. Resignation of Attorney Sylvia Patricia Colon-Vasquez (Membership No. 170766) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-G]
H. Resignation of Attorney Christian Michael Dillon (Membership No. 89376) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-H]
I. Resignation of Attorney Harvey Shalom Doncev (Membership No. 231170) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-I]
J. Resignation of Attorney Charla Rae Duke (Membership No. 95518) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-J]
K. Resignation of Attorney Cameron James Edwards (Membership No. 222549) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-K]
L. Resignation of Attorney Kevin John Hughes (Membership No. 111640) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-L]
M. Resignation of Attorney Jeffrey Martin Jones (Membership No. 125421) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-M]
N. Resignation of Attorney Edward Leonid Katsnelson (Membership No. 179677) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-N]
O. Resignation of Attorney Scott Michael Kendall (Membership No. 166156) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-O]
P. Resignation of Attorney Gregory John Khougaz (Membership No. 107530) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-P]
Q. Resignation of Attorney Kenneth Eugene Knoblock (Membership No. 157230) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-Q]
R. Resignation of Attorney Evelyn Ann Kramer (Membership No. 107242) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-R]
S. Resignation of Attorney Thomas Ryan Lee (Membership No. 61858) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-S]
T. Resignation of Attorney James Foley Lefebvre (Membership No. 171779) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-T]
U. Resignation of Attorney Mark Andrew LoBello (Membership No. 153129) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-U]
V. Resignation of Attorney Thomas Henry Merdzinski (Membership No. 152148) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-V]
W. Resignation of Attorney Robert Michael Nudelman (Membership No. 67006) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-W]
X. Resignation of Attorney Richard Russell Purtich (Membership No. 77829) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-X]
Y. Resignation of Attorney Holly Jean Quint (Membership No. 183681) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-Y]
Z. Resignation of Attorney John Royall Read III (Membership No. 51388) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-Z]
AA. Resignation of Attorney Mitchell Roth (Membership No. 77962) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-AA]
BB. Resignation of Attorney Yu-En Tang (Membership No. 237050) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-BB]
CC. Resignation of Attorney Robert Wayne Wiley (Membership No. 64883) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-CC]
DD. Resignation of Attorney Eric Phillip Xanthopoulos (Membership No. 235973) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-DD]
Review of New Resignations With Charges Pending (BOG agenda items 3127-EE through 3127-HH)
EE. Resignation of Attorney Jeremy Scott Brenman (Membership No. 207073) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-EE]
FF. Resignation of Attorney Michael Joseph Melton (Membership No. 48323) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-FF]
GG. Resignation of Attorney Robert Alan Pfaff (Membership No. 93439) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-GG]
HH. Resignation of Attorney Timothy Douglas Thurman (Membership No. 216048) With Disciplinary Charges Pending (Weiner) [Back-to-Back Item Mar 3127-HH]
III. Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
Advice of counsel pertaining to matters on the open agenda
IV. Discussion/Information
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.