I read with interest the Law Society chief executive's recent series of articles on Clementi.

Janet Paraskeva says we need to learn from other professions.

I would like to leave out the word 'professions', and take note of how the government does not regulate undertakers and estate agents.

We delude ourselves if we still think of ourselves as a profession.

We retain the trappings of one, but the fact that we do is only used against us.

We are urged to be imaginative in responding to the Clementi consultation.

Why not forget professionalism and make membership of the Law Society optional? Why not think the unthinkable?

JW Buckley, Atteys, Sheffield