Beth Gordie is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins. Beth is a member of the firm's Environmental, Land & Resources Practice and focuses on land use, energy and infrastructure, and environmental matters.
Beth’s experience includes significant development matters, governmental and administrative law as well as other matters involving local and state administrative and legislative decision-making. She assists landowners and developers through all stages of the entitlement and development process, providing counsel to clients on local planning and zoning regulations and approvals and related environmental matters.
Beth advises developers, utilities, and other clients on all aspects of project development, from initial permitting and entitlement strategy through governmental approvals incorporating legal, political, community, and public relations issues. She advises clients on the complex local, state, and federal regulatory requirements and frameworks that impact project development, including the California Environmental Quality Act, California Coastal Act, National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, federal and California Endangered Species Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act. Each project typically takes multiple years and regularly includes local, state, and federal permitting and entitlements, infrastructure approvals and development, environmental concerns, climate change issues, land assemblage, and public and private financing. Beth’s practice also involves regularly advising clients regarding local land use entitlements and administrative approvals in jurisdictions throughout California.
Beth is a registered lobbyist with the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the City of Malibu.
Her community activities include service on the board of Students Run LA, a non-profit organization whose mission is to challenge at-risk students to train for and complete the Los Angeles Marathon. Beth is the current Co-Chair of the Housing, Land Use & Development Committee of the Central City Association of Los Angeles.
Beth’s experience includes: