All 10 candidates for contested Los Angeles Superior Court seats in the April, 1996 election participated in the IALA forum. Pictured above are, left to right, attorney Kenneth Griffin, who unsuccessfully challenged Judge Reginald Dunn; former IALA president Rocco Liberio; Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Reginald Dunn; then-Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Karl Jaeger, who gained election to the Superior Court in a November run-off; and attorney F. Bentley Mooney Jr., an unsuccessful candidate for an open seat.

Pictured here are, left to right, attorney Ronald Smith, who unsuccessfully challenged Judge Ronald Sohigian; Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Stephen Marcus, who was unable to gain election to a Superior Court open seat; 1996 IALA President Jo-Ann W. Grace; at podium, then-Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Michael Luros, who gained election in April to a Superior Court open seat.

At left is incumbent Ronald Sohigian, who beat off two challenges in the April primary, and at right is one of his adversaries, criminal defense lawyer Charles Lindner.