Since the firm was established in 1993, the skilled attorneys at Hagen & Bates P.S. have provided versatile, professional and effective solutions to a variety of our clients’ legal challenges. With over 40 years of combined experience, we are always here to provide the support and assistance you require. For his professionalism and ethics, principal attorney Wayne D. Hagen, Jr. has earned a BV® Distinguished Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®. The unique talents, backgrounds and skills our attorneys bring to our law firm apply well to various areas of the law. With our proven courtroom skills in state and federal jurisdictions, we are experienced litigators who are prepared to do the research and understand the nuances of your case. We also have the skill to handle complex transactions.

Practicing for nearly twenty years in the areas of business law, estate planning, and tax law, Chris has worked with small business owners and start-ups to large corporations to solve problems involving legal and tax structuring and operational issues that may derail their success. He has advised hundreds of clients on setting up their businesses, growing their enterprises and ultimately retiring from their companies by selling them or passing them to their children. And, since a client’s business is only as successful as having a strong strategy for protecting what his clients have built, Chris develops working, practical estate plans including trusts and wills that provide certainty for asset preservation and tax minimalization. His passion for and extensive knowledge of his areas of practice allow Chris to provide guidance through the confusing, intimidating, while yet important steps of preparing the success of both businesses and ordinary lives.