Springfield, Missouri · Since 1988
Trusted counsel for your business, your estate, and your family.
Stephen F. Aton is a Springfield attorney with more than three decades of experience in estate planning, business and corporate law, real estate, and personal injury. Straightforward advice, careful work, and a plan built around what matters to you.
Licensed in Missouri, Arkansas, Florida.
How Stephen Aton can help
Four focused practice areas, backed by decades of transactional and trial experience.
Corporate & Business Law
Practical counsel for Springfield-area business owners, from forming the right entity to structuring the deals that grow or transfer your company.
Learn moreEstate Planning
Plans that protect your family and pass assets the way you intend, with the least cost, delay, and conflict for the people you leave behind.
Learn moreReal Estate
Representation for buyers, sellers, landlords, and investors across commercial and residential transactions in Missouri and beyond.
Learn morePersonal Injury
Serious-injury representation for people harmed by someone else's negligence, focused on full and fair recovery.
Learn moreExperience that earns confidence
A JD with honors, a federal appellate clerkship, and induction into the Order of the Coif in the top 5% of his law school class. Stephen Aton returned to his native Springfield to build a firm where careful, senior-level work is the standard.
Read the full bioUniversity of Missouri-Columbia
BA cum laude and MA in Latin & Greek
University of Florida College of Law
JD with honors, 1988
Florida Law Review
Editor-in-Chief; three articles published in law school
Order of the Coif
Inducted, top 5% of the graduating class
What clients say
“After my mother passed, our trust was a mess. Steve walked me through every step and got everything cleaned up and settled the right way.”
“When I sold my office building, Steve structured a Section 1031 exchange that saved me a substantial tax hit. He knew exactly what to do.”
Let’s talk about your situation
Whether you are planning your estate, buying a business, or recovering from an injury, a short conversation is the best place to start.