Lauren Langer serves as assistant city attorney for the cities of West Hollywood, Lomita and Hermosa Beach, which includes serving as counsel to their planning commissions. She also serves as assistant counsel to the Westside Cities Council of Governments and counsel to the West Hollywood business license commission and regularly advises the Malibu Environmental Programs Department.
 
Lauren’s practice consists of advising city clients on land use, zoning, planning and environmental laws (including California Environmental Quality Act, Clean Water Act, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System compliance), drafting legislation and contracts and advising on all other legal issues associated with municipal law practice, such as open meeting requirements and public records laws.
 
In addition to her land use and environmental experience, Lauren is actively involved in creating cannabis ordinances for her city clients in response to Proposition 64, including West Hollywood’s cannabis business license ordinance and license selection program. She also is highly skilled in drafting other critical and complex municipal ordinances, including those that address  density bonus and wireless infrastructure.  Lauren also handles enforcement and regulatory matters with the State and Regional Water Boards and litigation matters.  Lauren enjoys practicing municipal law, as it allows her to work on issues that are critical to the community and impact people’s daily lives — everything from safe streets to housing to the environment. Lauren focuses on building relationships with clients and consensus among all stakeholders to help cities run well and manage their issues. Before joining Best Best & Krieger LLP, she practiced at Jenkins & Hogin for 12 years.
 
Lauren has served on the League of California Cities City Attorneys’ Cannabis Regulation Committee since 2011. She also hosts programming for new lawyers at the League’s City Attorneys’ Department Spring Conference. She also regularly presents in-house trainings and seminars on water quality issues and CEQA, cannabis regulations and the Brown and Public Record acts. Lauren co-chairs the Parent Advisory Council at her daughters’ school.
 
Lauren is licensed to practice law in the State of California.
 
Education

• Southwestern University School of Law, J.D.
• University of Arizona, B.S., business administration

Awards

• Daily Journal 40 Under 40 List, 2018
• Named a Cannabis Law Expert by Databird, November 2018