Beth is an environmental and land use lawyer working with clients throughout northern New England. She specializes in commercial real estate, land use, energy, and business law, with extensive experience and a special interest in working with hospitality clients, farms and food producers.

In her practice, Beth counsels businesses, individuals and HOAs in a full range of land use and environmental matters before local and state agencies as well as trial and appellate state courts and federal trial courts. Her active commercial transactions practice involves sales and purchases of large and small businesses, and advice on issues including the initial selection of the business entity type, business formation, contract negotiation, drafting of related agreements, governance, and financing. Beth has substantial experience working with businesses in the commercial recreational and resort industry. Beth’s multi-state practice also includes representing individuals in complex land use disputes.

Notable work has included acting as counsel for the last 15 years to a historic resort in Manchester, Vermont, on land use and development; representing The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests in defeating Eversource Energy’s Northern Pass transmission line through New Hampshire; representing a group of small business owners, land owners, and two townships in the multi-year, multi-faceted litigation challenging CMP/Avangrid’s NECEC transmission corridor through Maine’s northwest forest; representing a group of clients challenging state and local land use permits of a massive industrial fish farm in downeast Maine; and representing Greater Portland Landmarks challenging the Portland Museum Of Art’s efforts to demolish a historic building.

Originally from Vermont, Beth was a successful restaurateur before earning her Juris Doctor degree from Vermont Law School. She has been a partner in the law firms of Lambert Coffin in Maine, and prior to that in Witten, Woolmington, Campbell, and Boepple in Vermont. Before finding her forever home with MPM, Beth most recently was a partner with BCM Environmental & Land Law based in New Hampshire.

Beth is passionate about community involvement, serving as a volunteer lawyer for Conservation Law Foundation’s Legal Food Hub and as an active board member with Community Housing of Maine and MOFGA Certification Committee, as well as serving as a former board member and chair on the City of Portland Planning Board and spending ten years on Vermont’s State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Beth also works as a consultant with Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture & Food Systems where she advises staff attorneys assisting farmers and food producers with legal solutions.