Danielle G. Sakai

Partner

Danielle Sakai is a partner in the Environmental Law & Natural Resources practice group of Best Best & Krieger LLP. Ms. Sakai’s practice focuses on environmental contamination, land use and real property disputes. She has significant litigation experience and is involved in one of the State’s most contentious superfund sites involving the Rialto/Colton Groundwater Basin. Ms. Sakai represents both public and private entities in State and Federal Courts. 

Ms. Sakai also has experience representing public and private clients before State and Local regulatory agencies, including the State Water Resources Control Board, the Regional Water Quality Control Boards, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Air Resources Board and the Department of Public Health, regarding environmental issues including the remediation of hazardous substances, leaking underground storage tanks, and air and water quality regulations and compliance.    

Ms. Sakai authored featured articles for the California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, the Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter and is an Editorial Board member of the Environmental Liability, Enforcement & Penalties Reporter.  

Ms. Sakai earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Law & Society from the University of California at Riverside in 1997. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in 2000. While at Loyola, Ms. Sakai received the Bancroft-Whitney Award for Academic Achievement and was a member of the Scott Moot Court Honor Society, where she participated in the finals of the Jessup International Law Competition and was awarded for both written and oral advocacy.

Ms. Sakai is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central and Eastern Districts of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education

• Loyola Law School, J.D. (2000)
• University of California, Riverside, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• California (2000)