West Hartford attorney and conservator Laura Blanch Platt had her license placed on inactive status on August 18 following a complaint from the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel (OCDC).
Platt is accused of mismanaging four people she was a conservator for, according to a complaint filed by OCDC Assistant Chief Disciplinary Counsel Marie-Louise Villar in the Judicial District of Hartford. Villar’s complaint, which was filed on May 13, references multiple grievance complaints filed against Platt in 2025 from various districts in the state.
“(Platt) poses a substantial threat of irreparable harm to her clients and to prospective clients in that probable cause has been found in four grievances within six months,” Villar wrote in her May 13 complaint, where she asked a judge to suspend Platt from practicing until further review.
Villar’s complaint lays out a list of alleged wrongdoings, including: charging a conserved person an unreasonable fee, which led to courts ordering Platt to return $20,000 to that woman’s estate; failing to report to the probate court when a person under her care had passed away and by doing so, “engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation;” mismanaging the proceeds from a conservatee’s home sale; failing to deliver funds that one of her conservatees received from her late brother-in-law; and failing to find the legal heirs of another conservatee after their death.
The complaint states that Platt did not respond to any of these grievances. Inside Investigator reached out to Platt through her cellphone and left a voicemail asking about the allegations against her. She did not respond.
Platt was first registered as a lawyer in Connecticut in 2007. There were no grievance complaints filed against her before 2025, according to Villar’s complaint. In the past, however, she received four administrative suspensions for failing to pay client security fund fees in 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2017, according to her online Juris record.
Platt isn’t the only conservator to face scrutiny for alleged misdeeds in recent months. In July, a grievance panel found probable cause that another attorney, Kristen Exner, had engaged in improper behavior when selling the properties of a conservatee and a woman whose estate she managed to her business partner in a real estate company for below market value.
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