Christine Nguyen Piersall focuses her practice primarily on estate tax planning, estate and trust taxation and administration, and elder law. Ms. Piersall has experience with conservator and guardianship matters, family limited partnerships and business succession planning. She also represents clients in commercial banking and real estate matters.

Christine Nguyen Piersall focuses her practice primarily on estate tax planning, estate and trust taxation and administration, and elder law. Ms. Piersall has experience with conservator and guardianship matters, family limited partnerships and business succession planning. She also represents clients in commercial banking and real estate matters.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Piersall was an associate with Hofheimer Nusbaum, P.C., which merged with Williams Mullen in 2004. She is admitted to practice before State Courts of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Piersall is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association and the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association. Additionally, Ms. Piersall is a member of the Portsmouth Bar Association, serving as secretary (2005-2006) and president-elect (2006-2007) and president (2007-2008). She has been recognized as one of the state’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business magazine and named one of the top up-and-coming lawyers in the state by Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Stars magazine.

Active in civic organizations, Ms. Piersall volunteers her time to the Wills for Seniors Program. She is a member of the Portsmouth Service League, serves on the board of directors of the Portsmouth Museums Foundation, Inc., and is a member of the Virginia Board for Branch Pilots.

Ms. Piersall received her law degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, magna cum laude, in 2001. She was an associate editor of the University of Richmond Law Review from 2000-2001 and a member of the McNeill Law Society. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and government from the University of Virginia in 1997.