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. 

Practice Areas

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

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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

Sylvia Grace Acosta

Counsel

Sylvia Grace Acosta has over 25 years of wide-ranging litigation experience.  Ms. Acosta’s current practice includes insurance defense, construction defect, dram shop, premises liability, insurance bad faith litigation, and coverage disputes.  She also handles commercial litigation, real estate matters, estate planning, and workers’ compensation.   

Ms. Acosta is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she instructs and mentors students on arbitration and negotiation. She is an active member and Past President of the Utah Minority Bar Association, and active with the Women Lawyers of Utah and Utah Center for Legal Inclusion.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Utah, 2003
  • Nebraska (inactive), 1997
  • California (inactive), 2002
  • Idaho (inactive), 2010

Location

Salt Lake City Office

Education

JD: University of Nebraska College of Law, 1997
BA: Auburn University, 1994, Psychology and English

Contact

acostag@hallevans.com

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Career Distinctions & Honors
  • Martindale-Hubbell®, AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
  • Law Clerk, Utah Court of Appeals, Hon. William A. Thorne, Jr., 2002-2004
Professional Associations
  • Utah Minority Bar Association
  • Women Lawyers of Utah
  • Utah Center of Legal Inclusion

Andrew C. Falcone

Associate

Andrew Falcone joined Hall & Evans, LLC as a generalist associate in 2025.  Mr. Falcone’s practice includes transportation, sports and recreation, and real estate. 

Prior to Hall & Evans, Mr. Falcone was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of South Dakota. While clerking for Judge Piersol, Mr. Falcone gained experience in a wide variety of law, including contracts, personal injury, wrongful death, § 1983, § 1981, Federal Tort Claims Act, and Federal Employee Liability Act.

Mr. Falcone graduated summa cum laude in July of 2024. In law school, he interned with the University of South Dakota’s General Counsel and worked as a summer associate at a law firm in Breckenridge, CO.  He was also a Graduate Assistant and Articles Editor for the South Dakota Law Review.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2024
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of South Dakota School of Law, 2024, summa cum laude
BA: Colorado State University, 2020, Psychology, Minor in Legal Studies

Contact

falconea@hallevans.com

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Andrew

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Career Distinctions & Honors

  • Articles Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 2022-2024​

Professional Associations
  • Colorado Bar Association
  • Denver Bar Association
Other Activities
  • When Mr. Falcone is not at work, he enjoys hiking, camping, golfing, skiing, and watching football.

Marcella Alvarez Morgan

Senior Associate

Marcella Alvarez Morgan has a broad range of civil litigation experience representing individuals, businesses, and insurers. Ms. Morgan’s practice includes premises liability, construction, trucking, employment, and environmental matters. She is also experienced with commercial real estate, business transactions, trademark, and copyright matters.

Prior to joining Hall & Evans, Ms. Morgan was a litigator at firms in Albuquerque, NM and Boston, MA. While attending Northeastern University School of law, she served as an intern with a global financial services company, a real estate investment trust company, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, and a legal aid foundation. Ms. Morgan is licensed in New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Texas.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • New Mexico, 2023
  • Massachusetts, 2020
  • Texas, 2022
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
  • U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Location

Santa Fe Office

Education

JD: Northeastern University School of Law, 2019

BA: Colorado College, 2012, Russian and Literature

Contact

morganm@hallevans.com

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Marcella

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Professional Associations
  • State Bar of New Mexico, Young Lawyers Division
Articles & Publications // Presentations // Webinars
  • Co-author, “New Media and Advocacy,” Understanding Nonviolence, Chapter 6, Wiley, 2015
Languages
  • Russian

Liz Leibsle

Senior Associate

Liz Leibsle defends individuals and businesses in general liability, premises liability, and transportation litigation. She is also experienced with complex immigration matters and real estate transactions.

Ms. Leibsle’s immigration practice includes representing employers and their employees seeking permanent residence and citizenship through the PERM labor certification process and representing clients before USCIS and other immigration agencies on employment-based immigration matters including H-1B, L-1, E-1, R-1, and related applications.

In the real estate arena, she is experienced in negotiating letters of intent, leases, and contracts to buy and sell along with managing due diligence processes with finance, legal, architecture, and construction teams. Previously, Ms. Leibsle was a commercial broker at a Denver based commercial real estate brokerage.

Before her legal career, Ms. Leibsle served in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she led the formation of savings and loan cooperatives for small-scale farmers and taught basic business skills to local women.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2012

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2011

BBA: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003, Finance, Investment, and Banking and Real Estate, Dean’s Honor List

Contact

leibslel@hallevans.com

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