Decision record
Howard A. Lettman
Allegation / charges
Suspended until Restitution Complete| Disciplinary Committee decision delivered June 22, 2019. || Guilty of Professional Misconduct | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered May 25, 2019. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
Attorney Howard Lettman was retained to act in the purchase of property for $250,000; the complainant and wife paid a $200,000 deposit in June 1994. The sale was never completed and the attorney failed to refund the deposit despite repeated requests over 14 years. He was found guilty of professional misconduct, ordered to make restitution of $200,000, suspended from practice until paid, and ordered to pay $50,000 costs to the complainant and $50,000 to the General Legal Council.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Failure to refund deposit despite repeated requests over 14 years
- Non-appearance at hearings
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=100000"]
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
- 116 of 2015
- 57 of 2008
- 57 of 2008
- 212 of 2017
- 215 of 2017
- 215 of 2017
- 212 of 2017
- 16 of 2016
- 124 of 2015
- 7 of 2017
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Documents
Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/howard-a-lettman-complaint-no-16-of-2016-formal-order/