Cecily Talbert is Chair of the firm's Real Estate Industry Group. Cecily focuses her practice on land use and local government law. She regularly assists landowners and developers in all aspects of land use processing, including drafting, negotiating and obtaining the approval of development agreements, general plan amendments, specific plans, tentative and final subdivision maps, planned unit developments and rezoning ordinances.

Her recent engagements include processing agency approvals necessary for her clients' redevelopment of the Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, assisting a joint venture on its acquisition and entitlement of a 160-acre mixed use residential community in the City of Santa Clara, negotiating school fee mitigation agreements under SB 50, processing a development agreement for the largest regional shopping center in El Dorado County, obtaining project approvals for several subdivisions in the San Francisco Bay Area, and advising a publicly traded real estate investment trust on its planned participation in a 250-acre retail and office development in Madera County.

3. Lecturer

Cecily regularly speaks on topics involving land use and local government law, including programs for the Urban Land Institute, the California Land Surveyors Association and the California Chapter of the American Planning Association.

4. Education

• University of California, Berkeley, 1983, Phi Beta Kappa
• Harvard Law School, 1988,  J.D. with Honors