
Career Highlights: Appointed judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, 2002; attorney, Pindle Decker & Amaro LLC (now Prindle Goetz Barnes & Reinholtz LLP,) 1997-2003; attorney, law clerk, Burns Ammirato Palumbo Milam & Baronian, 1990-96; student attorney, Community Legal Services, Sacramento, 1988-1990; clerk, Joseph Lang and Associates, Sacramento, 1987
Law School: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1990
By Blake Edwards
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LONG BEACH - Last month, an attorney appeared before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael P. Vicencia asking to have her trial continued. The attorney was having trouble articulating a need for more time, and Vicencia was becoming impatient.
"I don't know if you've been reading the papers," he said, "but our resources are a little thin. Doing things just because you want them d... (continued)