The Boston Bar Association has introduced a bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature prohibiting trust companies from soliciting employment as executor, administrator or trustee by advertisement "or by such other means as would, if employed for a like purpose by a member of the Bar, be a violation of the standards of professional conduct recognized and enforced by the courts of this Commonwealth." The Massachusetts Law Quarterly states the view of the proponents of this measure approximately as follows:
Many of the persons who call upon trust companies in response to advertising have...