Wesley Beverlin

Wesley G. Beverlin is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and vice-chair of the Public Agency & Public Finance Practice. Mr. Beverlin represents public agencies and private parties on a wide range of legal matters.

He is General Counsel for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, the Southern California Coastal Waters Research Project Authority and Sunset Beach Sanitary District. He has more than 35 years of experience handling the following types of matters :

• Joint Powers Authority Formation and Representation
• California’s Brown Act (Open Meetings), Public Records Act and FOIA Requests Compliance
• Environmental Law, including CEQA compliance
• Real Estate Law
• Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation Litigation
• Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Litigation

Education :

• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Juris Doctor, 1977
• University of Southern California, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science with Honors, 1974

Admissions :

• State Bar Admissions, California
• United States Courts of Appeals & Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States Supreme Court

Associations :

• California State Bar
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Transportation Lawyers Association

Representative Court Cases :

• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Young Kee Yang, et al. (2016), condemnation of defendant’s commercial property for Metro’s Westside Purple Line Subway Extension Project and the relocation of defendant’s four commercial tenants
• Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority v. Miller Coors LLC (2014), condemnation of the property necessary for the Gold Line’s Irwindale Station public parking facility
• Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority v. City of Monrovia, et al. (2013), condemnation of property required for the Gold Line’s Maintenance & Operations Facility
• Southern California Edison v. Pilla (2009), condemnation of necessary electrical transmission line easements for SCE’s Tehachapi renewable transmission project
• County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County v. Rio Hondo Rancho Corporation, et al., California Superior Court (2003), successful prosecution of plaintiff’s condemnation action for subterranean sewer line easements
• County Sanitation District No. 8 v. Watson Land Company (1993) 17 Cal. App. 4th 1268, condemnation of subterranean sewer line easements in Watson’s commercial properties and successful defense against Watson’s appeal.