A man of the left and culture close to Pierre Mendès-France and François Mitterrand, Georges Kiejman was for more than half a century a brilliant figure of the bar associated with resounding legal cases. His father was deported to Auschwitz, he comes from an extremely destitute background, and he rose by the strength of his intelligence, his culture, his elegance.
He was notably the lawyer of Gallimard editions for many years such as that of Gaston Defferre, Simone Signoret, Eugène Ionesco or Roland Barthes.