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Business Law Lawyers in Los Angeles, California

Searching for a business lawyer in Los Angeles? Counsel for businesses: forming the company, contracts and deals, and the disputes that follow. This page indexes Los Angeles's business law coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

Venue matters. Business law cases from Los Angeles are ordinarily heard at the Los Angeles County Superior Court: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, downtown, serving home to more than 3.8 million people. Los Angeles County Superior Court is the largest unified trial court in the United States, with dozens of courthouses spread across the county and dedicated personal injury, complex civil, family, and probate operations.

The law also keeps time: four years to sue on a written contract; two years on an oral contract (§ 339) under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337. Fraud claims run three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)); unfair competition claims under Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 run four years (§ 17208). Contractual limitation clauses can shorten these periods. The plaque below carries the citation; the roster and questions that follow carry the rest.

This page is the Los Angeles chapter of the registry's statewide record · Business Attorneys in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Four years to sue on a written contract; two years on an oral contract (§ 339).

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337

Fraud claims run three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)); unfair competition claims under Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 run four years (§ 17208). Contractual limitation clauses can shorten these periods.

Court of record · Los Angeles County

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Courthouse at the county seat: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

For Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Superior Court: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, downtown.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Business Law · Los Angeles roster

5,879 active attorneys with an address of record in Los Angeles list business law among their practice areas on the registry, out of 29,383 active attorneys whose address of record is in Los Angeles.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by Los Angeles attorneys are litigation (5,887), business law (5,879), employment (3,461), personal injury (2,623) and real estate (2,493). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

28 of the 29,383 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 3,341 of the 29,383 active attorneys in Los Angeles, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (2,262), Chinese (1,272), French (959) and Japanese (634). Attorneys themselves confirmed Spanish (2) and French (1); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in Los Angeles. Business law is two crafts: transactional work (forming the company, negotiating and drafting contracts, raising money, buying or selling a business) and dispute work (suing or defending over a contract, a partnership falling-out, a trade secret). Say which you need. For a transaction, ask whether defined tasks can be done at a fixed fee and how the attorney works with your accountant. For a dispute, weigh whether the attorney has tried or arbitrated cases of your size and subject matter, and their read on venue: county superior court, a complex-litigation department, or contractual arbitration. Bring the contract, the formation documents and the correspondence trail to the first meeting.

Address of record in Los Angeles