Malpractice Insurance Working Group
Notice and Agenda
Monday, August 27, 2018
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
State Bar of California
Conference Rooms 4A-C
180 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Questions regarding any agenda item should be directed to the Committee Coordinator(s), Linda Katz at (415) 538-2272 or Chair, Randall Miller at (415) 538-2000. 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.

The order of business is approximate and subject to change.
Open Session

I. Chair's Report
Introductory Comments
II. Business
A Status of Disclosure Rules in California and Other States

Mary F. Andreoni - Ethics Education Counsel, Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission

Saul Bercovitch - Director of Governmental Affairs, California Lawyers Association

Andrew Fergel - Executive Director, South Dakota State Bar

Alice Mine - Assistant Executive Director, North Carolina State Bar

B Academic Research Regarding Legal Malpractice Insurance

Jeffrey Watters - Texas Attorney
Author, "What They Don't Know Can Hurt Them: Why Clients Should Know if Their Attorney Does Not Carry Malpractice Insurance" 2010, Baylor Law Review

Herbert M. Kritzer - Professor of Law and Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota School of Law
Co-Author (with Neil Vidmar), When Lawyers Screw Up: Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims. University of Kansas Press, 2018

C Working Group Discussion

Call for Public Comment

Discussion of Topics Presented

Closed Session

I. None

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The notice and agenda is available at http://board.calbar.ca.gov/Committees.aspx.