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

- Irving Kaufman

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…

- Irving Kaufman

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…

- Irving Kaufman

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

- Irving Kaufman

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

- Irving Kaufman

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

- Irving Kaufman

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…

- Irving Kaufman

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

- Irving Kaufman

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

- Irving Kaufman