Douglas was suspended for 4 years. From another jurisdiction, in Conduct of L.B. Sandblast, 210 Or. 65, 307 P.2d 532 (1957), the attorney of the administrator of an estate purchased property without telling anyone he was purchasing the property. None of the clients suffered any injury as a result of this.

Cf. In re Boivin, 271 Or. 419, 428, 533 P.2d 171 (1975), and In re Sandblast, 210 Or. 65, 307 P.2d 532 (1957). We need not decide that question in this case.

A violation of these strictures is established without showing the client suffered economic disadvantage from the misconduct. See In re Sandblast, 210 Or. 65, 307 P.2d 532 (1957). However, the violation is aggravated when economic disadvantage is shown.

The procedure is designed to test the right of a lawyer to continue to be a member of the profession. Conduct of L.B. Sandblast, 1957, 210 Or. 65, 69, 307 P.2d 532; Drinker, Legal Ethics, 1953, pp 36, 37. It has been said that: "Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions. A fair private and professional character is one of them. Compliance with that condition is essential at the moment of admission; but it is equally essential afterwards ( Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46; Matter of Durant, 80 Conn. 140, 147). Whenever the condition is broken, the privilege is lost.

"The practice of law is a learned and honored profession; it deals with honest duties to the public that cannot be over-emphasized; it insists upon the highest standards of conduct from its members; it cannot permit the selfish interests of individual practitioners to rise above the interests of their clients, for to do so would result in subversion of justice." Conduct of L.B. Sandblast, 210 Or. 65, 307 P.2d 532. See also Kirchoff v. Bernstein, 92 Or. 378, 181 P. 746.