Jeffrey Hall

About Jeffrey Hall

The founder of his own law firm, Jeffrey Hall focuses his practice primarily on estate planning and administration, and his experience extends to income and estate tax planning as well. Located in Pleasant Hill, California, he represents clients throughout Contra Costa County and other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Hall is admitted to practice before all California state courts, and he has received an "Excellent" peer review rating through AVVO for the superior quality of his work and his high degree of ethics.

Mr. Hall's estate planning practice is designed to preserve and protect the assets of his clients, and to that end, he prepares and reviews wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, advance medical directives, and financial and health care powers of attorney. He also assists business owners in planning for their succession in the event of their retirement, incapacity or death. Mr. Hall's experience also includes the preparation of federal gift and estate tax returns, and he guides fiduciaries and beneficiaries through the estate administration process.

As an undergraduate, Mr. Hall attended Saint Mary's College of California, where he majored in economics and received a Bachelor of Science in 1981. He then joined the U.S. Air Force and spent several years at bases in California and Oklahoma. Mr. Hall's military service also includes his tenure with the U.S. Coast Guard, first as a commissioned officer and later as a senior officer with the U.S. Coast Guard Judge Advocate General's Corps. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Hall obtained a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University's Edward S. Ageno School of Business. His legal education was obtained at John F. Kennedy University?s College of Law, and he was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1996. n 2019, Mr. Hall published his first book entitled "Traditional Estate Planning is Finished," which can be purchased on Amzaon.com and Barnes & Noble.