Editor’s note: This article is written in response of Samuel C. Stretton’s Feb. 27 Ethics Forum column.

We write in response to the column, “Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility” authored by Samuel C. Stretton, which was published in [The Legal's] online edition on Feb. 22 and in print on Feb. 27. In his column, Stretton launched a broadside attack on “bar associations” as part of a discussion of “limited license legal technicians.” According to Stretton, bar associations have “miserably failed” in their “duty to advocate for the legal profession,” and “what will happen to the legal profession.” He blames bar associations for the alleged over-expansion of law schools and creation of new law schools that allegedly caused the profession to “become saturated;” the intrusion of nonlawyers into the market thereby reducing the opportunities for lawyers to gain clients and make a living; and getting “too involved in social issues,” thereby “ignoring their duties to the legal profession.”