In celebration of Lawrence Knipel’s retirement from the Brooklyn judiciary, friends, family and colleagues feted the state Supreme Court justice at an event last week in Williamsburg—and the judge treated his well wishers to a song.

Knipel has spent more than 35 years on the bench, 12 of which serving as Brooklyn Supreme Court’s administrative judge for civil matters. And at the end of the week, he’s hanging up his robe for good.

At his retirement party, held on Oct. 22 at Giando on the Water, Knipel showed off his other area of expertise. He picked up a guitar and jammed with Justice Matthew D’Emic, the administrative judge for criminal matters for Brooklyn Supreme Court, and the two jurists led the crowd in a sing-along of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”

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