[Editor's note: This letter was submitted in response to Ellen Brotman's letter to the New York Law Journal, which it published on March 1.]

Ellen Brotman offers a timely and critically important analysis of the erosion of rule of law commitments in contemporary society. While emphasizing the legal community's obligation to step up and secure the ideals fostered by a robust conception of the rule of law, the piece cautiously reminds readers that many lawyers themselves have too readily participated in the very activities that have gnawed away at access to justice, fair and independent adjudication, unimpaired democratic participation, and other hallmarks of healthy rule of law functioning.