The Firm
Our Attorneys
Pacifica Law Group APC brings immigration, criminal defense, family violence, and civil trial practice together in one firm. Our attorneys appear in California superior courts statewide, in the immigration courts, and in the federal district courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit.
Most firms make a client pick one practice area. Our clients’ problems do not arrive one at a time, so we do not. The attorney handling a restraining order talks to the attorney handling the criminal case, who talks to the attorney handling the immigration case — because in most of our files, those are the same case.
Benjamin F. Hall
Founding Attorney
Ben founded Pacifica Law Group to represent non-citizens whose criminal, family, and immigration cases are really one case. He handles removal defense, post-conviction relief under Penal Code sections 1473.7 and 1016.5, and federal habeas litigation for clients held in ICE detention, and he appears personally at detention facilities across California.
J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law, with a specialization in international law. B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara.
Matthew T. Hidayat
Attorney at Law
Matthew leads the firm’s domestic violence and contentious custody practice and handles the full range of the firm’s immigration and post-conviction work. Other firms regularly bring him in as co-counsel to handle the domestic violence portion of a family law matter.
J.D., McGeorge School of Law, 2012. B.A. in International Development Studies, UCLA, 2007.
Kevin W. Harris
Partner
Kevin joined the firm in 2026 with nearly four decades of California litigation experience in employment and labor law, civil rights, administrative law, personal injury, forfeiture, and appeals. He has tried cases in the California superior courts and the federal district courts and argued appeals in the state and federal appellate courts.
J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. B.A., Cornell College. California Bar No. 133084.
How the firm works together
A domestic violence allegation can decide a custody case, trigger a criminal prosecution, and end a green card application — all at once. A car accident can leave a client with an injury claim and a status question in the same week. An old plea from fifteen years ago can be the only thing standing between a client and naturalization. We handle all of it under one roof.
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