Opinion ID: 2283496
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: jamititus complaint

Text: Respondent was retained by Kenneth Jamititus in the latter part of 1976 to dissolve a New Jersey corporation known as G.P. Inner Cote, Inc. and to form a new corporation to be known as Grand Prix Auto Service. Thereafter, the respondent advised the complainant that the new corporation had been formed and further represented to the complainant that the corporation known as G.P. Inner Cote, Inc. was dissolved. In fact, none of these services were ever performed by the respondent thereby causing confusion, inconvenience and monetary damage to the complainant which still continues. The respondent failed to properly communicate with the complainant, failed to respond to numerous telephone inquiries, but when he did, ultimately, talk with the complainant he specifically told the complainant that the work requested had, in fact, been performed when he knew of the falsity of such representations. At a formal hearing before the Committee on September 3, 1980 respondent claimed that he thought the work had been done and the corporation papers properly filed. Respondent offered no documentary evidence, however, to substantiate his claim. The Committee concluded that the respondent made deliberate misrepresentations to his client, failed to carry out a contract of employment entered into with the complainant for professional services and engaged in other conduct that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law.