The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger..

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the ….

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are s….

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying y….

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society..

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it..

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of ….

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often in….

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds availa….