UC Law San Francisco recently reported that Justice Leondra Kruger had a wide-ranging discussion with its students in October.
Justice Kruger gave advice on good advocacy — “The most fundamental rule of advocacy is try to put yourself in the shoes of the person who’s making the decision.” And she repeated what her colleagues have said about the advantages of the Supreme Court’s collegiality — “When dealing with the most difficult questions facing our system, we give better answers when we collaborate,” she said. “That doesn’t mean we always agree, but it helps when we come from a place of doing our very best to see eye to eye on an issue.” (Related: here, here, and here.)
Justice Kruger also charged the students with the responsibility of helping to promote confidence in the judicial system — “What you do and say, how you communicate about your client’s causes and the work of the courts matters tremendously,” Kruger reportedly told them. “It helps promote that sense of public confidence in the courts as the proper forum for resolving our most difficult challenges and disputes.”
