Drawing on her government experience, Lila advises clients on managing risks and responding to complex environmental issues. She represents companies and institutions in environmental, white collar, and regulatory matters. Her practice includes litigation, enforcement defense, internal investigations, and regulatory counseling.

Before joining Beveridge & Diamond, Lila served as a Legal Advisor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. She advised on clean energy tax credits, permitting initiatives, enforcement actions, the defense of the agency’s liquefied natural gas regulatory program, and counseled agency officials on congressional oversight matters. Prior to that, Lila practiced as a litigation associate for an international law firm in New York City. Additionally, she clerked for the Honorable Karin J. Immergut of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

In law school, Lila was James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as the Executive Forum Editor for the Columbia Law Review. She received a B.A. from Cornell University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and an M.Phil from the University of Oxford. Prior to law school, she was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.