Career Highlights: Retired March 2022, appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2006-10; partner, Suzuki and Ito, Los Angeles, 1984-2006; sole practitioner, Los Angeles, 1989-84; staff attorney, Long Beach Legal Aid Foundation, 1976-78, staff attorney, Riverside Community Legal Services, 1975-76
Law School: UCLA School of Law
ADR Services, Inc.
Probate, trusts and estates, conservatorships, elder abuse
Neutral Paul T. Suzuki spent his last four years on the bench as a Los Angeles County probate judge, where he tried to stop family members from destroying each other.
You feel like you want to stop it, you want to try to help heal the wounds, so they can move forward again -- or at least help them not to battle each other for the rest of their lives," Suzuki said. "Probate is very emotional. It's like family law excep... (continued)
