In re Kaffenburgh

This is a proceeding instituted by.the .Association of the Bar of the City of New York against an attorney, asking that he be disbarred. It appears that the respondent was a clerk with a firm of attorneys practicing law in New York city under the name of Howe & Hummel, of which Abraham H. Hummel was a partner, William F. Howe, a former member of the firm, having been dead for. some years. Hummel has been convicted of an offense and has been suspended from practice pending an appeal from the judgment of conviction. This conviction was based upon a conspiracy in an action for divorce in the…