In addition to being one of California's first appellate specialists, Edward Leonard Lascher, Lascher & Lascher's founder, was an avid writer and editor. He was recognized across the state and throughout the legal community for his column, “Lascher at Large,” which featured astute, sometimes biting and often humorous observations of the state and nation's legal scene.

Edward L Lascher grew up in the Chicago area. During the last few weeks of World War II, he joined the Army at age 17, entered the Japanese Language Program and, later, joined the Airborne Infantry.  After his discharge, he attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, followed by the University of Michigan Law School.

After a year of practice in Indiana, Ed moved to Southern California in the early 1950s.  He worked for NBC and then for the Marquardt Corporation, a defense contractor, before starting a solo practice in Van Nuys in May, 1958. Ed began focusing on handling appeals and transformed appellate practice from back office ghostwriting to highly respected speciality. Ed was instrumental in founding the prestigious California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and served as its president in 1974-75.  He served on the State Bar Board of Governors from 1975 to 1978.

Early in his career, Ed began writing “From the Foolscap” for the San Fernando Valley Bar Bulletin. Initially a recap of law review articles, that column evolved into Ed’s reflections upon the legal scene. Shortly after Ed moved his practice to Ventura in 1967, he changed the name of the column to "Lascher at Large" in the Law Reviews” (with its well-recognized logo of a tiger) and moved it first to the State Bar Journal, and eventually to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, where the column appeared monthly until Ed’s death in 1991.

We hope you enjoy reading (or re-reading) these Lascher at Large columns.