Jacinta Hall-Weeden
Attorney & Founder
Attorney Jacinta Hall-Weeden’s path to estate planning was not planned — it was personal. When an unexpected health diagnosis struck her family, Jacinta searched for an estate planning attorney who truly understood her community. Finding no one, she felt called to fill that void herself. Then tragedy deepened her purpose: she lost her only child in a plane crash while he was training as a student pilot. That loss changed everything. Jacinta does not simply draft documents — she walks alongside families in their most difficult moments, because she has lived them, too.
Jacinta’s legal career spans over two decades, beginning as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge Leslie D. King of the Mississippi Court of Appeals — now a Justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court — and continuing through years of public defense and criminal defense work in state and federal courts from Jackson, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. In August of 2022, she founded The J.A. Hall Law Firm, PLLC, focusing on estate planning, probate and trust administration, elder law, and criminal defense. She is licensed in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
An adjunct professor at Ole Miss School of Law since 2014, Jacinta has lectured at Yale and the University of Chicago Law Schools and was named a Leader in Law by the Mississippi Business Journal in 2019. She is the only Mississippi member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys and is currently pursuing her LL.M. in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Outside of the law, she serves on the boards of the Junior League of Memphis and the Association of Independent Holiness Churches, is a charter member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Alpha Alpha Gamma Omega Chapter, a church musician, and a proud Ole Miss Rebels fan.