In re Schneidkraut

The respondent was admitted to the bar in 1919 and thereafter maintained an office in the borough of Brooklyn for the practice of the law. He seems to have had a large number of clairñs or cases in his office, aggregating something like 1,500, at about the time of the investigation of the present charges. Out of this mass he is charged with seven instances of failing to pay over to clients the sum or sums due them, and of appropriating such sums to his own use. In other words, he was charged with larceny. At about the time of the presentation of the charges he was indicted, together with a…