Jeana R. Lervick

Counsel

Jeana Lervick is a seasoned litigator who provides counseling and defense through every step of conflict prevention and resolution. Ms. Lervick focuses primarily on employment and health care law, from day-to-day operations to large-scale litigation.  She handles all aspects of employment management and defense, including contract negotiation and drafting, as well as appearing regularly in administrative proceedings before the Montana Human Rights Bureau. Ms. Lervick also has extensive experience in public entity defense and intellectual property, including both trademarks and patents, and routinely leads general litigation matters across all areas of the law.

Ms. Lervick began her career as a litigator in Chicago focusing on patents and trademarks for more than a decade. She returned to Montana to raise her family and became In-house Counsel for a Montana school district before serving as Chief of the Civil Department of Montana’s largest county. Prior to joining Hall & Evans, Ms. Lervick was Senior Counsel at a large litigation firm in Montana.

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 2002
  • Montana, 2014
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Montana
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Location

Billings Office

Education

JD: DePaul University College of Law, 2002
BS: Montana State University, 1999, Directed Interdisciplinary Studies

Contact

lervickj@hallevans.com

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Jeana

Professional Associations
  • Yellowstone County Bar Association

Articles & Publications // Presentations // Webinars
  • Speaker, “Trial Preparation for Montana Legal Assistants,” Half Moon Seminar, 2024

  • Speaker, “Montana Employment Law: Hiring, Firing, and Disciplining Employees,” NBI Seminar, 2023

Business & Community Service
  • Yellowstone Soccer Association, Vice President
Other Activities
  • Outside of work, Jeana is a coach and team mom for numerous youth athletic programs and can often be found cheering on her son with their Bernese Mountain Dog, Rosie, and rescue pup, Bandit.​

Hannah Huval

Associate

Hannah Huval joined Hall & Evans, LLC as an Associate in 2025. Ms. Huval’s practice includes general insurance defense, construction defect, trucking matters, premises liability, real estate matters, special district and municipal law, and complex business transactions. 

Ms. Huval graduated magna cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law.  While in law school, she clerked at a transactional firm in Mississippi and a corporate firm in Krakow, Poland. She also served as Staff Editor for the Journal of Space Law, participated in several law school societies, and was the recipient of the 1L Dedication Award and Outstanding Student Award. 

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2022
  • Montana, pending
  • Texas, pending
  • Arizona, pending
  • Wyoming, pending
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of Mississippi School of Law, 2021, magna cum laude
BA: Millsaps College, 2016, Sociology-Anthropology, and History, Minor in Archaeology

Contact

huvalh@hallevans.com

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Hannah

Career Distinctions & Honors
  • Outstanding Student Award, Phi Delta Phi International Honor Society, Fall 2019
  • O’Brien Service Scholarship, 1L Dedication Award
  • Staff Editor, Journal of Space Law, 2020-2021

Ciara N. Kimminau

Senior Associate

Ciara Kimminau’s practice is focused on labor and employment law and public entity matters. She is also experienced in handling business disputes involving contracts and property.

While attending the University of Colorado Law School, Ms. Kimminau was an ACLU Student Bar Association Representative, a volunteer for the “I Have a Dream” foundation, and the recipient of numerous scholarships. Ms. Kimminau began her career at the Colorado Civil Rights Division handling employment, housing, and public accommodation discrimination. Since moving to private practice, she has focused on employment and commercial business litigation at small firms in Denver.

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2019
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of Colorado School of Law, 2019

BA: University of Colorado, 2015, Sociology

Contact

kimminauc@hallevans.com

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Ciara

Career Distinctions & Honors
  • Stavish Family Endowed Scholarship
  • William & Maxine Rentfro Law Diversity Scholarship
  • Gilbert Goldstein Scholarship

Sophie Kaineg

Associate

Sophie Kaineg’s practice focuses on employment litigation and public entity matters. Ms. Kaineg is also experienced with general insurance defense and workers’ compensation claims.

Ms. Kaineg graduated cum laude from the University of California Law in San Francisco where she was awarded Best Oral Argument in moot court and served as teaching assistant for constitutional law and moot court. She also interned with the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2021
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of California Law-San Francisco, 2020, cum laude
BA: The University of Chicago, 2014, English Language and Literature

Contact

kainegs@hallevans.com

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Sophie

Articles & Publications // Presentations // Webinars
  • Author, “The Growing Problem of Space Debris,” Hastings Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 2020

Danyelle Semjonovs

Senior Associate

Danyelle Semjonovs’ broad labor and employment law experience includes litigation, compliance, enforcement, policy, advising, and investigations.  Ms. Semjonovs advises and defends corporate clients in employment matters from simple discrimination or misclassification claims to SCA audits at the Department of Labor.  She frequently handles matters involving labor and employment law, EEOC proceedings, OFCCP audits, defamation, privacy law, technology abuse, and sexual harassment/assault.  In 2024, Ms. Semjonovs received her Workplace Investigations Certificate from the Society for Human Resources Management.  She has served as first chair and trial counsel in numerous matters across Colorado, California, and Washington.

Ms. Semjonovs began her career as an Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance Officer for the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contracts Compliance Programs where she made employment rights determinations and ensured that complaints and proactive enforcement activities were processed in accordance with directives, regulations, policies, and case law.  She also served as a Staff Attorney for a sexual violence law center in Seattle, WA where she provided survivor-centered legal representation to sexual assault survivors on a broad range of legal matters including privacy litigation, employment discrimination based on sex, and Title IX campus hearings.

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2021
  • California, 2022
  • Washington, 2019
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court, District of Central California
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of Colorado Law School, 2016

BA: University of California-Riverside, 2012, Political Science, cum laude

Contact

semjonovsd@hallevans.com

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Danyelle

Career Distinctions & Honors
  • Honor Roll of Volunteer Attorneys, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2021

  • Attorney of the Year, Whitcomb Selinsky P.C., 2022

License
  • Workplace Investigations Certificate, Society for Human Resource Management, 2024
Professional Associations
  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals
Articles & Publications // Presentations // Webinars
  • Presenter, “Addressing Sexual Harassment in Brewer Environments: Fostering Respectful Workplaces,” Craft Beer Professionals, CPB Connects, October 2023
  • Presenter, “Employment Law 101 for Small Businesses,” Brewer’s Association, Craft Brewer’s Conference, February 2023
  • Presenter, “Understanding Sex-Based Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace,” Sexual Violence Law Center, Community Outreach Series, September 2021
  • Presenter, “Identifying and Addressing Technology Enabled Abuse,” Access to Justice Board, Annual Conference, August 2021
Languages
  • Spanish