Cyndy Day-Wilson

Partner

San Diego
655 West Broadway
15th Floor

TEL: (619) 525-1305
FAX: (619) 233-6118
Cyndy.Day-Wilson@bbklaw.com

Ms. Day-Wilson is a Partner in the Environmental Law and Natural Resources Practice Group.  Ms. Day-Wilson holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Environmental Law from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., the only attorney in San Diego to have earned such a degree.

Throughout her 20 years in practice, Ms. Day-Wilson has provided public agencies and private industry clients throughout the United States with counsel and litigation support in unraveling the myriad of complex, often multi-jurisdictional and sometimes conflicting laws governing natural resources and the environment. Licensed in California and Idaho, Ms. Day-Wilson’s expertise emphasizes the Clean Water Act, coastal zone regulation, hazardous and solid waste, CEQA and NEPA, endangered species, historic sites, underground storage tanks, landfills, environmental indemnities, and environmental insurance in real property transactions.

Ms. Day-Wilson is a former lobbyist/legislative analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures and was involved in the negotiations for revisions to the Clean Water Act.  She began her legal career as a law clerk to Chief Justice Allan G. Shepard of the Idaho Supreme Court.  A former professor at the University of Redlands, Ms. Day-Wilson is the author of “Federal Environmental Issues in Commercial Leasing:  A Practitioner’s Guide,” published by The Environmental Lawyer, a joint publication of the American Bar Association and The George Washington University Law School and is a regular contributor to the State Bar of California’s Environmental Law Section Update – www.calbar.ca.gov/enviro. She is also a member of the executive committee for the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California.

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 1988
• Idaho, 1986

Education

• LL.M. Environmental Law, The George Washington University Law School
• JD, University of Idaho, College of Law
• BA Political Science, College of Idaho