Families change. Businesses change. Let us help you make that change.
We combine decades of legal experience to provide effective solutions for your family, your business, and your legacy.
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Areas of Practice
Family Law: Protecting Your Future During Difficult Transitions
We understand that family law matters are deeply personal and often emotionally charged. It’s not just about good lawyering; it’s about appreciating the human aspects of separating families and finding the best path forward for you and your loved ones. With our extensive experience in this area, we provide the steady, compassionate guidance you need during this challenging time.
Whether you are facing divorce or navigating complex issues of custody, property division, child support, or spousal support, our primary focus is on protecting your rights and securing your future. We are skilled in resolving even the most complex financial entanglements and sensitive custody situations with strength and care. Our goal is to shoulder the legal burden for you, offering clear-headed strategy and unwavering support so you can focus on healing and beginning your next chapter with confidence.
Business Law Services: Protecting Your Bottom Line
What is business law? It's the framework that keeps your business safe, stable, and profitable. We specialize in protecting you from costly mistakes by providing strategic legal counsel in the areas that matter most.
From well-written contracts that prevent future disputes to ensuring careful adherence to complex employee/employer regulations, our goal is your peace of mind. We help you maintain effective compliance with the federal and state laws that govern your industry, taking the guesswork out of your legal obligations. Through proactive risk management, we guide you in identifying and minimizing financial, contractual, and regulatory risks, allowing you to operate with confidence.
Estate Planning: Securing Your Legacy and Protecting Your Assets
Estate planning is not just for the wealthy; it is for anyone who wants to ensure their hard-earned property and assets are passed on according to their wishes. A proper plan is the only way to protect your legacy from being stripped of its value by taxes, legal fees, and administrative costs, ensuring it reaches the family members and community you designate.
Our focus is to help you create a thoughtful, strategic plan tailored to your specific goals. We work directly with you to structure your estate in a way that preserves your property and assets by minimizing financial burdens on your beneficiaries. More importantly, we provide the peace of mind that comes from knowing your legacy is secure and that your loved ones will be cared for exactly as you intend. Let us help you take control of the future and protect what you’ve spent a lifetime building.
Dispute Resolution: A Faster, More Direct Path to Closure
Court battles are often expensive, draining, and unpredictable. We offer a more effective path forward through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), a recognized legal process designed to settle disputes efficiently, whether in or out of court. Our primary goal is to help you avoid the time and expense of a prolonged trial by finding a practical, final resolution.
With nearly 50 years of experience as a trusted mediator and arbitrator in both state and federal courts, we bring seasoned legal judgment to the table. We have successfully helped parties resolve hundreds of cases, from complex business disagreements to sensitive personal matters. Our role is to guide the process with a firm and fair hand, allowing all parties to move beyond the conflict. Let our decades of experience help you find a satisfactory conclusion without the unnecessary cost and stress of litigation.
About Northern Sierra Law
Roger Diefendorf, Attorney at Law
With over fifty years of experience, Roger Diefendorf provides dedicated legal representation to residents of Northern California. His practice is focused on sensitive family law matters, including divorce, child custody, spousal support, guardianships, and conservatorships. A highly skilled mediator, Roger is also adept at resolving family law, contract, and personal injury disputes in superior and federal courts, often providing a less stressful and more cost-effective alternative to trial.
Roger’s exceptional mediation and settlement skills were honed during his twenty-year career as an Administrative Law Judge. In this capacity, he frequently served as a settlement judge, successfully guiding government agencies and private entities toward resolving high-value cases without formal litigation.
This extensive judicial background provides Roger with unique expertise in administrative law, allowing him to guide clients through complex government regulations expertly, represent them in administrative hearings, and effectively challenge or defend agency actions.
Tricia Romandia, Certified Paralegal
Tricia Romandia is a long-time resident of Plumas County who has raised her children in the rural setting of the county, where they were involved in 4H activities and where she was a 4H leader. Her daughter showed a champion pig, which won reserve grand champion, and her other children successfully showed pigs, chickens, and rabbits.
Tricia was a legal clerk for the office of the District Attorney and was instrumental with the then District Attorney in bringing drug court to Plumas County. She is a California-certified paralegal.
For more than twenty years, she has been assisting family law litigants to negotiate the paperwork associated with family law cases, including divorce, custody, support, and guardianships and conservatorships. She brings this wealth of experience to Northern Sierra Law, P.C.
Representing Northern California
With an emphasis on Plumas, Butte, Lassen, and Sierra counties and two locations, our primary in Quincy, and a secondary in Butte Valley.