State Bar News
| Publication year | 1994 |
| Pages | 39 |
Commission Highlights
During its regularly scheduled meeting of May 26, 1994, held in Vernal, Utah, the Bar Commissioners received the following reports and took the actions indicated.
1. The Board approved the minutes of the April 28, 1994 meeting.
2. The Board voted to approve holding a special election to fill a vacated position on the Bar Commission as soon as possible in the Third Division for a three-year term and to modify the Rules to allow for special elections.
3. J. Michael Hansen reported on the Judicial Nominating Commission Procedures Manual. Hansen indicated that the rules have been adopted by the Judicial Council on an emergency basis and are subject to a public comment period and depending on the comments, the rules will then be finalized and published.
4. The Board discussed the recusal policy in the Judicial Nominating Commission Procedures Manual. The Board voted that should a recusal result in a vacancy on a nominating commission the vacancy should be filled in the same manner as originally filled and that the Bar should send a letter recommending this amendment to the rules.
5. Jim Clegg, a member of the Appellate Management Task Force, reviewed the issues discussed by the Task Force at its last meeting.
6. The Board voted to endorse the Collection Task Force proposed Recommendations Nos. 1-10 with amended language and not to endorse 6 and 8.
7. The Board voted to recommend amending the Code of Judicial Administration and to ask the Court to require that collection agency lawyers certify that they are not fee splitting.
8. Gary Sackett, Chair of the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee, appeared to comment on Opinion #111.
9. Carol Clawson, Assistant Attorney General, and Karl L. Hendrickson, Deputy County Attorney appeared to present the position of their offices with regard to Ethics Advisory Opinion No. 115R.
10. The Board voted to nominate members of the newly constituted trial court judicial nominating commission for submission to the governor.
11. Keith A. Kelly, Delivery of Legal Services Committee Chair, appeared to report on the Committee's pro bono program proposals.
12. The Board voted to propose a rule to allow inactive lawyers to engage in pro bono work but to make participation conditional that lawyers come under the organization's umbrella professional liability insurance program and that participants meet minimal CLE requirements as established by the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board.
13. The Board voted to endorse the concept of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee proposal and directed the Executive Director to look at how the proposal would affect Bar operations and report on the estimated impact at a future meeting.
14. Paul Moxley reported on the recent Long-Range Planning Committee meeting.
15. Budget & Finance Committee Chair, Ray Westergaard, reviewed the April financials.
16. The Board voted to approve the recommendations of the Client Security Fund Committee to pay $5,150 out of the Fund.
During its Annual Meeting of June 29, 1994, held in Sun Valley, Idaho, the Bar Commission received the following reports and took the actions indicated.
1. Jim Clegg welcomed incoming commissioners, Fran Wikstrom, representing the Third Division; David Nuffer, representing the Fifth Division; and new Ex Officio member, Mary Ellen Sloan, representing the Women Lawyers.
2. Timothy M. Shea, Administrative Office of the Courts, and James B. Lee appeared to review the preliminary Utah Family Court Task Force Report.
3. The Board voted to adopt Ethics Advisory Opinion No. 111 with a language change and allow publication in the Bar Journal for a sixty-day comment period.
4. The Board voted to appoint the following as ex officio members of the Bar Commission for the upcoming year. The Dean of the University of Utah School of Law; The Dean of the Brigham Young University College of Law; The Bar Commission's Representative to the ABA House of Delegates; The Utah ABA delegations Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates; The Young Lawyers Division President; The Immediate Past President of the Bar; A Representative of the Minority Bar Association; A Representative of the Women Lawyers of Utah.
5. The Board voted to appoint Mike Hansen to a one-year term as the Bar Commission representative on the Judicial Council and to be an ex officio member...
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