Partner Cecily Barclay was interviewed by Law360* in “Perkins Coie Land-Use Head Sees 4 Active Sectors Amid Virus,” the final article in a five-part series of interviews with women real estate leaders during Women's History Month and a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Law360: What have been the biggest challenges in doing land-use work over the last year?

Cecily: Well, surprisingly, the land-use work has not been as challenged by COVID-19 as many of us might have thought when the pandemic first got started. ... We've had many many public hearings and quite a few projects approved during this period. So from a land-use perspective, the process has really been quite phenomenal in how adeptly the public and the communities and the practitioners and the developers have been able to continue to move entitlements along with the new technology.

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