Barnett & Hall is a statewide Texas law firm providing strategic legal counsel to individuals, families, and businesses navigating complex planning and transition matters. Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the firm is known for its careful, client-focused approach and its ability to address legal issues with both technical precision and practical insight.
The firm’s planning practice includes Estate Legacy Planning, Asset Protection, Wealth Tax Planning, and Family Office & Multigenerational Wealth Advisory. We work closely with clients to design clear, durable legal frameworks that protect assets during life, support thoughtful succession planning, and reduce unnecessary tax and administrative burdens. Our goal is not simply to prepare documents, but to provide counsel that stands up over time and across generations.
The firm’s after-planning practices includes Probate Administration, Guardianship, Real Estate, and Fiduciary Services. We assist in appointed fiduciaries (e.g. executors, trustees, and agents) with their responsibilities to beneficiaries and the court, tax reporting, and other matters that appear.
Barnett & Hall is led by Managing Owner Brian J. Hall, whose practice focuses on estate and legacy planning, tax-aware structuring, business entities, real estate matters, probate, guardianship, and trust administration. Mr. Hall advises individuals, families, individual and corporate fiduciaries, and closely held business owners on both current planning needs and long-term succession considerations.
The firm’s founder, D. Wendell Barnett, retired from the practice of law in 2019 and passed away in 2025. Mr. Barnett started his law practice in Lubbock, Texas, in 1969, and moved the firm to the Dallas area in 1988. His career included both statewide and national recognition and honors such as being quoted in The Wall Street Journal, articles in Texas Lawyer magazine, and being highly rated with Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Barnett’s clients were all over Texas during his 50-year career, and he was always concerned about his clients having the proper ongoing representation. Accordingly, he advised any interested person to contact his son-in-law and his business partner of 20 years, Brian J. Hall, of this firm. He believed the transition would be seamless with proper supportive needs.
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