Adam Lindgren is Managing Principal of Meyers Nave’s Sacramento office and a member of the firm’s Public Law and Land Use Practice Groups. He currently serves as the City Attorney for the City of Rancho Cordova and is special counsel to the City of Atwater, the City of Fresno, and numerous other districts and agencies. Mr. Lindgren has extensive experience in all aspects of municipal law, with particular qualifications in complex land use and development projects. Examples of his experience include processing comprehensive general plan updates, preparing CEQA documents for mixed-use developments, processing annexations, preparing complex subdivision map approvals, negotiating development agreements for large-scale planned unit projects and advising clients regarding development impact fees.

Mr. Lindgren is primary author and co-managing editor of a leading comprehensive publication on land use law, California Land Use Practice, published by Continuing Education of the Bar in 2006 and updated annually. He has written and lectured extensively on a wide array of land use and municipal law topics, including the Subdivision Map Act, development agreements, the Brown Act, conflicts of interest, Proposition 218, takings and exactions, zoning, district formation, the Coastal Act and geologic hazard abatement districts, and ethics. He speaks frequently around the State for groups including the League of California Cities, Continuing Education of the State Bar, the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions, the Special Districts Association and Lorman Education Services.

In 2005, Mr. Lindgren was distinguished as a Northern California Super Lawyer by Law and Politics, publisher of the San Francisco Magazine. He is an active member of the League of California Cities City Attorneys Department, which he has served as chair and editorial board member of the Municipal Law Handbook Committee, and is a member of the City Attorney Department Ad Hoc Committee on Practice Management and Ethical Standards and the City Attorney Department Nominating Committee. Mr. Lindgren has also been active in the State and Local Government Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Lindgren began his legal career in Washington, D.C. as a Legislative Assistant to a member of the United States House of Representatives. On Capitol Hill, Mr. Lindgren focused on land use, environmental and local government issues. Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Mr. Lindgren worked as a land use attorney at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen in the practice of land use and municipal law.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, JD, Public Interest Law Scholar, 1993
Columbia University, BA, cum laude, 1990

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Title: Principal
Location: Sacramento
Phone: 916.556.1531
Email: alindgren@meyersnave.com
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