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Judge Michael D. Abzug to Retire Next Month
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Michael D. Abzug will officially retire as a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court on June 29, with his last actual day on the bench being June 11, it has been learned.
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MICHAEL D. ABZUG Los Angeles Superior Court Judge
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The judge told the METNEWS yesterday:
“A good day on the bench was when I brought light into the darkness; a bad day was when I was the darkness myself.
“After raising five children and spending 45 years in litigation in one capacity or another, I will not feel obliged during my retirement to make one more thing happen. I leave the Superior Court in good hands, perhaps no worse for my 13 years of service.
Abzug, at age 59, was appointed to his post on Nov. 5, 2008 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the time, Abzug was an administrative law judge for the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a position he had held since 2001.
Prior to that, he was a sole practitioner for 20 years.
Abzug received his law degree from UCLA in 1974 and was admitted to the State Bar in December of that year. His legal career included serving as an assistant U.S. attorney, an associate in the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, and Kuchel, and as a deputy federal public defender for the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California.
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