Howard A. Lettman
Allegation / charges
Guilty of Professional Misconduct | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered June 01, 2019 || Struck off | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered November 23, 2019 View PDF DECISION OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 212/2017 IN …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The complainant retained the respondent attorney in 2016 to sell her late husband's property in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth for $8.2M to purchaser Nadine Dawkins, delivering him the duplicate certificate of title. The sale was never completed, the complainant received no proceeds, could not retrieve her title, and the respondent stopped communicating with her. Applying the criminal standard of proof, the Panel found the respondent guilty of professional misconduct for failing to keep the client informed of the progress of her business and for inexcusable/deplorable negligence, in breach of Canons I(b), V(r) and IV(s). No express finding of dishonesty was made. No sanction was imposed in this decision; a further hearing (July 13, 2019) was set to allow mitigation before sanction. The respondent had already been struck off in a separate matter.
Duties found breached:
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
- 116 of 2015
- 57 of 2008
- 212 of 2017
- 57 of 2008
- 215 of 2017
- 215 of 2017
- 16 of 2016
- 16 of 2016
- 124 of 2015
- 7 of 2017
Matched by respondent name — may include a different person with the same name.
Documents
Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/howard-a-lettman-complaint-no-212-of-2017/