Michael J. Hanagan

Michael J. Hanagan is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes. His practice focuses on representing businesses, institutional clients, and insurance carriers.
Mr. Hanagan has more than two decades of experience in both civil and criminal litigation. He has represented both individuals charged with the most serious felony offenses and business clients in cases where potential civil liability ran into the tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Hanagan has experience representing large insurers, small business owners, corporations, and tech companies in civil and patent litigation. He has represented a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Trustee in avoidance and preferential transfer actions. He successfully presented evidence to the United States Department of Justice that resulted in his client avoiding serious federal felony charges, assisted in preparing multiple cases for settlement against a large institution on claims of sexual abuse, and also helped a foreign television company prevail on claims for unpaid royalties made against it by a large and well-known multinational media company. Mr. Hanagan has experience litigating cases in both state and federal courts.
Mr. Hanagan obtained his J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2002, where he graduated cum laude. He was a member of the Moot Court Board of Advocates and a teaching assistant. After law school, Mr. Hanagan served as a law clerk for the Hon. Manuel L. Real at the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He obtained his B.A. in 1999 from the University of Washington, where he was a teaching assistant in the university math and computers program.
In his spare time, Mr. Hanagan enjoys outdoor activities, including bicycling, hiking, boating, and snow skiing. Having been raised in Redondo Beach, California, he enjoys any activity on or near the ocean. Mr. Hanagan is a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and a Merit Badge Counsellor for the Boy Scouts of America. He is fluent in Spanish and devoted two years of his life as a young man to missionary service in Uruguay.