Susan Booth

Susan J. Booth is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP, where she spent more than a decade as the head of the West Coast Real Estate Group and served on the firm's Director's Committee. She has extensive experience negotiating, drafting and successfully closing large commercial financing and purchase/sale transactions involving shopping centers, hotels, condominiums, office buildings, industrial parks, data centers, senior-living centers and residential, commercial and mixed-use developments. She is widely regarded for her expertise in all types of capital market transactions and for her ability to develop and implement strategies to resolve the issues arising from non-performing real estate assets. She has closed more than $1 billion in transactions over each of the past few years.

Booth has spoken in multiple forums, and her writings have been featured in various industry and legal publications. She has received numerous honors, including Marquis, Who’s Who in America, Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, and was named one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Southern California through Super Lawyers. She also received a Commendation from the City of Los Angeles.

Among her leadership roles, Booth serves on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles as well as on the board of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the executive committee for the City of Hope Construction and Real Estate Industries Council. She is a past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section and continues to serve on its executive committee. She is also co-chair of USC Gould’s Annual Conference on Real Estate Law and Business.

Booth graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Relations, and she received a JD and an MBA from UCLA, where she was the managing editor of the UCLA Law Review.

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

KPCC Air Talk
November 18, 2019
Re: Camille Gear Rich

Camille Gear Rich participated in a discussion on KPCC Air Talk about free speech. “I think we’re entering an era in which people are much more aware of the need for some protection, some regulation in terms of how speech is orchestrated, that government is in a position where it’s trying to create conditions where a variety of speakers with different sensitivities can participate in public debate. So when it says “Congress shall make no law,” there are all sorts of ways in which we have historically carved out particular things, particular areas, where there is a need for regulation … there is a need for let’s say, speed bumps, or containers … where there are certain kinds of speech that are so coercive to public debate or dangerous for other reasons that we impose some limitations and we’ve created definitions around obscenity, around threats, around fighting words, to try to create those conditions that really will allow for a truly participatory and rich conversation,” Rich said.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Nomi Stolzenberg
July, 2019

Nomi Stolzenberg, "Anne Dailey and the New Fictionalism," 36th Annual Congress of Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy.

Thomas D. Lyon
July, 2019

"Effects of the Putative Confession Instruction on Perceptions of Children's True and False Statements" (with Jennifer Gongola and Nicholas Scurich), Applied Cognitive Psychology 33 (2019): 655.

Thomas D. Lyon
July, 2019

"Children’s Concealment of a Minor Transgression: The Role of Age, Maltreatment, and Executive Functioning" (with Shanna Williams and Kelly McWilliams), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.