W. Wesley Pue, 33(4) Alberta Law Review (1995), 730-767 [symposium issue on legal profession]
In Pursuit of Better Myth: Lawyers' Histories and Histories of Lawyers

ABSTRACT

This paper identifies the centrality of a presumed "history" of the profession in contemporary professional apologetics and rhetoric, illustrates the lack of support in empirical history for a number of contemporary "myths" and explores some implications of the disjunction between history and professional myth. Particular attention is paid to themes of self-regulation, independence of the profession, adversarial justice and public service. The table of contents for this article is as follows:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Importance of Professional Myth
Contemporary Lawyer's Mythologies
A Note on Sources of Professional Mythology
History and Myth in Contemporary Lawyer's Discourse

History "in your face"
History encoded
The Myth in Aggregate