| MCLE Credit: | 2.0 (Ethics: 0.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 0.0 |
| Price: | $149 (Includes a downloadable audio version.) |
| Viewable Through: | 06/30/2028 |
A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the June 2025 webcast, Mastering Advanced Business Formation: Strategies for Success.
Explore the complexities of advanced business entity formation with Rob Hagy and Bruce Russell and learn how to navigate sophisticated legal challenges to set your clients up for long-term success. This seminar provides in-depth strategies on tax optimization, multi-jurisdictional considerations, risk management, and structuring businesses for growth and sustainability.
Robert (“Rob”) R. Hagy, II, Law Offices of Rob Hagy, PC / Charlottesville
Robert (“Rob”) R. Hagy, II, is the owner and proprietor of the Law Offices of Rob Hagy, PC, established in August 2004 and located in Charlottesville, Virginia. He practices all aspects of Family and Divorce Law in the juvenile and circuit courts of the cities and counties constituting Central Virginia (Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene, Nelson, Louisa, Fluvanna, Orange, and Buckingham). He is also available to consult with other attorneys in other jurisdictions around the Commonwealth and to represent clients in other jurisdictions around the Commonwealth as well.
Mr. Hagy graduated from Richlands High School in 1989. In 1993, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in History and a minor in the Environmental Sciences. While at Virginia, Mr. Hagy was a member of and eventually president of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. He completed his academic career as a member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Academic Honors Society and the Order of Omega. He received his J.D. from George Mason University in 1996. He was a member of the George Mason Law Review, where he served as a Notes Editor in 1996.
Mr. Hagy began practicing in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1998 and came to Fluvanna County in 2002 to practice. He served as the Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fluvanna County for two years from 2002 until 2004.
Mr. Hagy is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Family Law, the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar, the Domestic Relations Section of The Virginia Bar Association, the Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association, and the Family Law Section of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.
Bruce H. Russell, II, Bruce H. Russell, II, PC / Lebanon
Bruce H. Russell, II, has practiced law for more than twenty years, mainly in the courts of his native Southwest Virginia. In that time, he been a prosecutor, law professor, member of a small firm, and solo practitioner, and is proud of his service to his Commonwealth and community in each of these roles.
Currently, Mr. Russell has a large and diverse general practice, and represents both individuals and businesses in numerous matters, from business formation to contract disputes and beyond. In recognition of his extensive and continuing service to the bench, bar, and public, he was named the 2023 Virginia State Bar Local Bar Leader of the Year.
Mr. Russell graduated from Richlands High School, the University of Virginia (where he served on the Honor Committee and its Executive Committee as Chairman of the Bad Check Committee), and the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law. He began his legal career in Charlottesville at the turn of the century with the boutique firm of Thompson & Hagy, focusing on representing small high-tech companies, primarily start-ups. He soon returned to the hills of his youth in Southwest Virginia, pursuing an opportunity to join the Buchanan County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office as that office’s only full-time assistant. While there, he prosecuted everything from murder to the theft of fighting roosters. Shortly after arriving in Grundy, the Appalachian School of Law brought him onboard as an adjunct faculty member at the then-fledgling school.
Returning to private practice in 2003, Mr. Russell joined the law firm of Bolling & Hearl (eventually Bolling Hearl Russell), working out of Abingdon and Richlands, plus parts in-between. He established his own firm in 2009, sharing space in Lebanon with the Hall-of-Fame attorney Steve Quillen. Currently, Mr. Russell serves as President of the Russell County Bar, the 28th Circuit Criminal Defense Bar, and the Patrick Henry American Inn of Court. He is also Chairman of the Southwest Virginia Law Foundation and serves on the Board of Southwest Virginia Legal Aid. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar Council, as well as that body’s Executive Committee. Additionally, he serves on the VSB Special Committee on Bench-Bar Relations and is a faculty member of the Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course. He is a member of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
Mr. Russell has been named a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation, and a Virginia Lawyers Weekly Leader in the Law. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
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