ADAM D. NIR

ASSOCIATE

Adam Nir is an associate attorney with Remy Moose Manley, LLP. His practice specializes in environmental law, land use and planning, water law, initiatives and referenda, and administrative law generally. Mr. Nir joined the firm in 2024.

Mr. Nir received his Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2024, with a certificate of concentration in Capital Lawyering. He attended McGeorge on the full, merit-based Pacific Law Scholarship. As a law student, he served as Chief Legislation Editor of the University of the Pacific Law Review, using his experience as an intern at the Office of Legislative Counsel to mentor staff writers on the dynamics of the legislative process. Mr. Nir also participated in several national competitions as a member of McGeorge’s negotiation team and in the school’s Capital Lawyering Clinic—working as a lobbyist to pass his own legislation in the California State Legislature. Mr. Nir gained first-hand experience in the executive branch of California’s government as well, working as a legal extern at California State Parks during his final semester of law school.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Nir attended Florida State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and graduated cum laude and with honors.

In his free time, Mr. Nir enjoys reading about history, following college football, spending time with his family and friends, and going to the park with his adorable dog, Gus.

HANNAH RIDER

ASSOCIATE

Hannah Rider is an associate attorney at Remy Moose Manley LLP.  She specializes in environmental law, land use and planning, and administrative law generally. Ms. Rider joined the firm in 2024. 

Ms. Rider received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Policy from Colorado College in 2018. She earned her Juris Doctorate from University of California Davis King Hall School of Law, where she attended on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship. During law school, she served as an Executive Editor for Environs, the school’s environmental law and policy journal. She also worked as an intern with the Environment and Natural Resources Sections of the California Attorney General’s Office, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the California Tahoe Conservancy. 

Outside of work, Ms. Rider enjoys spending time outdoors, especially biking, skiing, and hiking with her dog, Winnie.

BLAINE R. DYAS

ASSOCIATE

Blaine Dyas is an associate attorney at Remy Moose Manley LLP.  His practice focuses on environmental law, land use and planning, water law, initiatives and referenda, and administrative law generally. Mr. Dyas joined the firm in 2024.

Mr. Dyas earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law, where he attended on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship. He served as Senior Article Editor for Environs, an environmental law and policy journal. 

During his time in law school, Mr. Dyas worked with the Office of Legislative Counsel, the Aoki Water Justice Clinic, and Oppenheimer Investigations Group. He also founded the King Hall Renewable Energy Law Society (RELS), a student-led organization that facilitates energy policy discussions and career panels featuring energy law and policy professionals from the public, nonprofit, private, and policymaking sectors. Mr. Dyas was also the first student-member of the California Lawyers Association Environmental Legislative Review Committee.

Mr. Dyas earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas. As an undergraduate, he externed with Manhard Consulting as a civil engineering consultant and with Holder Construction as a construction manager. After graduating from Texas Tech, and before law school, he spent two and a half years working as an aerospace structures engineer.

In his spare time, Mr. Dyas enjoys shopping for vintage clothing, furniture, and décor, going on adventures with his Great Pyrenees, Goose, and networking and socializing with the Sacramento LGBTQ+ community.

SARA HELMS

ASSOCIATE

Sara Helms specializes in environmental law, land use and planning, water law, initiatives and referenda, and administrative law generally. 

Ms. Helms attended the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law on a full merit-based scholarship. She earned her Juris Doctorate with concentrations in Water and Environmental Law as well as Capital Lawyering. 

As a law student, Ms. Helms was a member of McGeorge’s Moot Court Honors Board and a Staff Writer for the University of the Pacific Law Review, Greensheets Volume. During law school, she interned with the California Air Resources Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the State Water Resources Control Board. 

In her free time, Ms. Helms enjoys hiking, traveling, cooking, spending time with her family and friends, and playing with her dog, Gunther, and cat, Doodle.

Natasha Roland

ASSOCIATE

Natasha Roland is an associate attorney in the Sacramento-based law firm of Remy Moose Manley, LLP, which specializes in environmental law, land use and planning, water law, initiatives and referenda, and administrative law generally. Ms. Roland joined the firm in 2024.

Ms. Roland received her Bachelor of Arts degree in international affairs, graduating cum laude, with a minor in political science from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2011. She received her Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School in 2016 with a distinction in public service. She attended law school on a full Wildman/Schumacher merit-based scholarship.

As a law student, Ms. Roland practiced in the Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s Civil Rights Clinic, interned for the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and led the school’s chapter of the Homelessness Prevention Law Project.

Just prior to law school she worked in development and communications for an international human rights organization focused on international humanitarian law and women’s rights. After graduating from law school, she received a sponsored postgraduate fellowship focused on homelessness prevention at a legal aid organization in Los Angeles. Ms. Roland later served as an attorney for children in dependency court, as an economic benefits attorney and ran an eviction defense legal clinic. Ms. Roland received her LLM in Water and Environmental Law from McGeorge Law School in 2024.

Sabrina V. Teller

Managing Partner

Ms. Teller joined the firm in 2001 and became a partner in December 2006.  She has been the managing partner since December 2020. Ms. Teller represents public agencies, private applicants, and citizens’ groups in a wide variety of land use and environmental law matters.  Ms. Teller handles all phases of the land use entitlement and permitting processes, from local agency administrative approvals through trial and appellate litigation.  Ms. Teller’s practice includes the California Environmental Quality Act, the State Planning and Zoning Law, the Subdivision Map Act, the California Coastal Act, the California Endangered Species Act, the California Water Code provisions relating to water supplies for development, the National Environmental Policy Act, the federal Endangered Species Act, and the federal Clean Water Act provisions associated with wetlands permitting.

Ms. Teller regularly teaches land use and environmental law continuing education classes and seminars for her client agencies and professional organizations such as the Association of Environmental Professionals. She served as an editor for the California Land Use & Policy Reporter from 2005 to 2008. She also contributed to the online Environmental Law Updates published by the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association.

Representative matters include:

• Outside counsel to the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in 2018-2020 with respect to the preparation of a programmatic environmental impact report for the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP), which involves the use of prescribed fires and other techniques to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire and to restore forest health, and in litigation over the approval of that project.
• Outside counsel to the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority regarding CEQA compliance for projects to reduce the risk of wildfires within Marin County.
• Representing the City of Los Angeles in several ongoing cases defending the City’s compliance with CEQA for various development projects.
• Representing the City of Livermore in litigation defending the City’s approval of a boutique hotel.
• Represented the Town of Loomis in litigation defending the Town’s approval of a new Costco store.
• Outside counsel to the City of Monterey in a variety of environmental and land use matters.
• Outside counsel to the City of Mountain View in a variety of environmental and land use matters.
• Outside counsel to the City of Santa Cruz for a variety of infill projects.
• Outside litigation counsel to the County of Humboldt in a variety of cannabis permitting and other land use matters arising under CEQA and the State Planning and Zoning Law.
• Outside litigation counsel to the San Francisco Unified School District in litigation under CEQA challenging the District’s proposal to study the removal of a mural in George Washington High School.
• Counsel to RainTree Investment Corporation regarding land use entitlements and CEQA compliance for portions of the Green Valley Specific Plan area in Perris, California.
• Counsel to various developers of Dollar General stores regarding compliance with CEQA and local land use regulations.
• Jointly represented the California High-Speed Rail Authority with the California Attorney General’s Office to defend the Authority’s environmental review for individual project segments of the future statewide high-speed train system;
• Successfully defended the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board in litigation challenging the environmental review for the Board’s electrification and modernization project to improve the Caltrain commuter rail service on the San Francisco Peninsula;
• Successfully defended the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission’s CEQA compliance for a freight rail service contract assignment and rail repair work, upheld by the Santa Cruz County Superior Court;
• Representing landowners in Folsom and Roseville in the environmental review and subsequent implementation of specific plans for future residential and commercial development.
• Defended the San Mateo County Community College District in cases challenging facility improvements at the College of San Mateo. In 2016, the California Supreme Court decided in the District’s favor a key question regarding the standard of review for agency decisions to rely on CEQA’s subsequent review provisions.
• Defended the City of Monterey’s approval of a city-wide streetlight replacement project for energy efficiency in litigation challenging the City’s reliance on a categorical exemption from CEQA, upheld by the Sixth District Court of Appeal.
• Represented Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas in successfully navigating CEQA, CESA, and local land use entitlement processes to obtain a conditional use permit in November 2008 for a new 103-MW wind power project on private land in Shasta County. Ms. Teller assisted RES in developing a strong biological and cultural resources mitigation program, working cooperatively with the County of Shasta, resource agencies, and environmental and tribal interests to avoid litigation after project approval.

Reported cases:

• Save the Hill Group v. City of Livermore (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th 1092
• Hollywoodians Encouraging Rental Opportunities v. City of Los Angeles (2019) 27 Cal.App.5th 768
• Georgetown Preservation Society v. County of El Dorado (2018) 30 Cal.App.5th 358
• Westsiders Opposed to Overdevelopment v. City of Los Angeles (2018) 27 Cal.App.5th 1079
• Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College Dist. (2017) 11 Cal.App.5th 596
• Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College Dist. (2016) 1 Cal.5th 937
• Save Our Big Trees v. City of Santa Cruz (2015) 214 Cal.App.4th 694
• Keep Our Mountains Quiet v. County of Santa Clara (2015) 236 Cal.App.4th 714
• Citizens for a Green San Mateo v. San Mateo County Community College District (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 1572
• California Clean Energy Committee v. City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th 173
• Habitat and Watershed Caretakers v. City of Santa Cruz (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 1277
• Tomlinson v. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th 281
• California Native Plant Society v. City of Rancho Cordova (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 603.
• Shasta Resources Council v. U.S. Dept of Interior (E.D.Cal. 2009) 629 F.Supp.2d 1045
• Vineyard Area Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. City of Rancho Cordova (2007) 40 Cal.4th 412
• Friends of the Sierra Railroad v. Tuolumne Park and Recreation Dist. (2007) 147 Cal.App.4th 643
• Save Our Neighborhood v. Lishman (2006) 140 Cal.App.4th 1288
• The Pocket Protectors v. City of Sacramento (2004) 124 Cal.App.4th 903
• Sierra Club v. County of Napa (2004) 121 Cal.App.4th 1490

Louisa Rogers

Associate

Louisa Rogers joined the firm in 2022. Her practice specializes in environmental law, land use and planning, water law, initiatives and referenda, and administrative law generally.

Ms. Rogers attended the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship. She earned her Juris Doctorate with certificates in environmental law and public service law. At King Hall, Ms. Rogers was an editor of both the UC Davis Law Review and Environs, the Environmental Law and Policy Journal. As a student, Ms. Rogers worked as a summer associate for the firm and was also an intern with the California Attorney General’s Office, in the Land Use and Conservation section of the Division of Public Rights.

Ms. Rogers received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and her Master of Science degree in Soils and Biogeochemistry from the University of California, Davis. While earning her graduate degree, Ms. Rogers studied carbon cycling in natural and agricultural systems and worked as a teaching assistant for various graduate- and undergraduate-level classes.

Christina Berglund

Partner

Ms. Berglund joined the firm in 2016 as an associate, and joined the partnership in 2025. Her practice focuses on land use and environmental law, including handling all phases of the land use entitlement and permitting processes, administrative approvals and litigation. She has extensive experience in preparing NEPA documents and managing the NEPA process, as well as long-range planning and zoning analysis. She has helped entitle millions of square feet of development in California, affordable housing projects, mixed-use development, warehouses, and regional medical facilities.  Her practice centers on CEQA and NEPA, state and federal endangered species, air and water quality, and other related land use statutes such as the Subdivision Map Act, Outdoor Advertising Act, and Planning and Zoning Law.

Ms. Berglund’s representative matters include:

• Associate counsel defending the City of Los Angeles in litigation challenging various development projects.
• Associate counsel representing the City of Newport Beach in litigation challenging the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of the Southern California Metroplex Project.
• Associate counsel representing Waste Management in litigation challenging the Alameda County Waste Management Authority’s approval of an organics recycling facility.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Berglund worked as a consultant for WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff advising public agency clients on all elements of the procurement and contract drafting processes for large alternative delivery projects. She was a key member of the consultant team advising on the first phase of the California High-Speed Rail Project in the Central Valley.

Ms. Berglund has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners since 2008.  She also has several years of experience as a community and environmental planner.