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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 98-B-0800 IN RE: JEFFREY LEBLANC ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS PER CURIAM* This attorney disciplinary proceeding arises from formal charges filed by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, Jeffrey LeBlanc, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. 1.1 (incompetence), Rule Rule 1.4 The charges allege violations of Rule 1.3 (lack to of keep due diligence in

representation),

(failure

client

reasonably

informed and comply with reasonable requests for information), Rule 8.4(a) (violating the Rules of Professional Conduct), and 8.4(c) (conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty, or misrepresentation) of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Underlying Facts The facts are concisely set out in the hearing

committee's report: The respondent, Jeffrey P. LeBlanc, a Louisiana licensed attorney, was engaged to represent Glenna S. McCollister in connection with a real estate transaction. Ms. McCollister, along with her husband wanted to purchase property in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Her husband was employed out of the country at the time and Ms. McCollister was required to attend to many details of this Louisiana real estate transaction on her own. The record reflects that as of the date of the closing on the sale approached, the respondent failed and refused to return phone calls to her requesting information about how the sale was to be structured. She was not provided information at the time of the closing itself to many of the questions she had regarding the transaction. Documents attached and admitted in the record revealed that the respondent in fact structured the sale of the real estate as a "lease purchase agreement" when in fact the document was a "bond for deed." In a bond for
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Marcus, J. not on panel.

Rule IV, Part 2,

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