In Prof. Seidemann’s book: In The Interest of Justice: Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100 Years (Harper Collins Pub.) two of the twenty courtroom arguments selected are those of Goldberg. The book has been described as “America's greatest courtroom speeches beginning with the Scopes trial and the summation of Clarence Darrow.”

Goldfarb, in his book PERFECT VILLAINS (Random House Pub.) wrote, “of all the hotshots in Kennedy's Justice Department, Jay Goldberg was probably the hottest.” With the same assessment: Navasky, Kennedy Justice (Atheneum Pub.) and Heymann, R.F.K. (Dutton Pub.).

Working as his then student assistant, Charles Rangel, thereafter a Member of Congress, wrote: "It was indeed my good fortune that District Attorney Hogan assigned me to you. You provided me with my first real experience in the law. What I learned while working for you has stayed with me all these years."

At the Association of the Bar, City of New York he delivered a lecture entitled by others "Giant of the Trial Bar."

He was profiled on Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in a segment entitled "Toughest Lawyer in Town."