Volume 159 — Nebraska Reports

1. Attorney and Client. When an attorney is shown to have converted funds to his own use which he held as referee in a partition suit, and refused to account for same for more than 3 years, he is subject to disbarment. 2. ___. In admitting a lawyer to the bar and granting him a license to practice law, it is with the understanding that he will faithfully discharge his duties, uphold and obey the Constitution and laws of the state, observe established standards and codes of professional ethics, maintain the respect due to courts of justice, and abstain from all offensive practices which cast reproach on courts and the profession of law. 3. ___. A restitution of funds wrongfully converted by a lawyer, after he is faced with legal accountability, is not an exoneration of his professional misconduct.