Legal Services, Pro Bono & Equal Access
Notice and Agenda
Friday, July 23, 2010
*
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), Mary Flynn at 415-538-2251 or Chair, Rex Heinke at (310) 229-1030. 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: Gwen Moore, James Aguirre, Lowell Carruth, Laura Chick, William Gailey, Cheryl Hicks, Wells Lyman, Jon Streeter, Richard Rubin.
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.

Legal Services will meet at the conclusion of Discipline Oversight and if not concluded Friday morning, will continue at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 24, 2010.

Open Session

(Heinke) I. Chair's Report
Oral Report
II. Consent
None
III. Action
A. State Bar Rule, Title 3, Division 4, Chapter 3: Lawyer Referral Services, Request for Approval for Public Comment (Carol Madeja; Robert Hawley)
IV. Discussion/Information
A. Council on Access & Fairness Status Report (Craig Holden)
B. Improving Civil Justice in Rural California - A Report of the California Commission on Access to Justice (Mary Lavery Flynn)
C. Judicial Branch Update (Jennifer Wada; Mary Lavery Flynn)
V. Reports
A. Report from the Office of Legal Services

1. Center on Access to Justice (Mary Lavery Flynn)

2. Legal Services Trust Fund Program (Mary Lavery Flynn)

B. Report on Bar Relations Outreach (Carol Madeja)
Closed Session

I. Consent
None
II. Action
None
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. California Appellate Project Request for Assistance re Death Penalty
V. Reports
* Closed under Rule 6.53(A)(1) of the Rules of the State Bar to receive advice of counsel.