The Firm
RATH HAGEN. By your side.
Dr. Theresa Rath
Attorney at law (Germany)
Theresa advises private and business clients on immigration law, business migration and German citizenship law. She consults in German, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Dr. Julius Hagen
Attorney at law (Germany)
Julius represents clients in criminal matters, white-collar investigations, extradition proceedings and INTERPOL matters. He consults in English and German.
Legal problems do not stop at national borders.
Criminal investigations, immigration matters, commercial disputes and regulatory proceedings increasingly involve multiple jurisdictions, authorities and legal systems.
We founded RATH HAGEN because we believe these matters require more than legal expertise. They require judgement, personal responsibility and clear leadership.
Law firms build strategies. We are strategists who built a law firm.
Knowing the law is only the beginning.
Complex matters rarely unfold exactly as expected. Good strategy does not depend on certainty. It preserves the ability to act as circumstances change.
We founded RATH HAGEN with a clear purpose. We look at the situation as a whole. We anticipate how it may develop. We coordinate the people, proceedings and jurisdictions involved.
We do not consider legal questions in isolation. We bring them together in a coherent approach that can adapt as circumstances change.
Nothing is more dangerous than a lawyer who tells you what you want to hear.
Loyalty does not mean agreement. It requires independent judgement and the willingness to say what needs to be said, especially when the answer is uncomfortable.
The practice of law is an independent profession, not a commercial enterprise. Our role is not to meet expectations, but to represent our clients’ interests independently.
We challenge assumptions. We test possible courses of action. We identify weaknesses before opponents, authorities or courts do. Our task is not to confirm a client’s initial assessment. Our task is to protect their interests.
Some of our most important successes are never seen.
They occur before a dispute escalates, an investigation becomes public or a legal problem begins to define a person or business.
The most effective intervention may leave no public trace: only a risk contained, a course corrected and the client’s freedom to act preserved.
In the best cases, no one beyond the client ever needs to know that we were involved.