Meet Our Staff
Special Needs, Settlement, and Estate Planning Services
Mercy Hall, Esq.
Mercy Hall is the principal of Hall Law Law Firm, P.C., representing clients in special needs planning, conservatorship, settlement planning, probate, and estate planning matters. She enjoys being able to help clients through challenging legal processes.
Mercy is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. She has been named a “Rising Star” by Superlawyers from 2013 to 2016.
A Bay Area native, Mercy graduated summa cum laude from the Integral Progam at St. Mary’s College in Moraga and earned her J.D. from U.C. Hastings School of Law in San Francisco. Prior to starting her own firm, Mercy developed her expertise working with Kevin Urbatsch, a nationally recognized expert in special needs and settlement planning and with Sterling “Terry” Ross, whom many consider to be an originator of the special needs trust.
Mercy is co-author of the article “Settling the Minor’s Lawsuit: Legal Requirements and Practical Advice” Plaintiff’s Magazine (July 2012). She is also a frequent lecturer on special needs and lawsuit settlement planning issues.
Brooke Brigham, Attorney
Brooke Brigham has over 25 years of experience as an attorney representing clients in a wide variety of complex legal matters including general civil, business and probate litigation and trust and estate administration. She is also a trained mediator. Brooke began her career as a criminal defense attorney in Oakland representing both adult and juvenile defendants. She also represented parents in juvenile dependency cases brought by the Alameda County Department of Social Services. In 2004 Brooke began practicing civil and probate litigation with her father Thomas Brigham until his retirement in 2024.
Brooke was raised in Ukiah in Mendocino County. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara and San Francisco Law School as the Valedictorian of her class. After law school she taught Contracts Writing and Legal Research and Writing at San Francisco Law School and was the Faculty Advisor for the San Francisco Law Review and Moot Court competition team for 5 years.