Attorneys/Investigator
The Hastings Law Firm
Learn more about our attorneys and the investigator at The Hastings Law Firm. Contact us today to schedule a criminal defense appointment with our attorneys.
MOLLY HASTINGS
Lead Attorney / Owner
Since 2001, Molly Hastings has focused her entire career on criminal defense and trial practice. After 13 years as a dedicated public defender in both rural and urban jurisdictions, Molly transitioned into private practice in 2014. She has tried nearly 100 felony jury trials, with incredible success, including acquittals for first-degree and second-degree murder, forcible rape, child molestation, first-degree assault, and involuntary manslaughter. Molly was awarded the Charles M. Shaw Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy in 2009 and the Lon O. Hocker Award in 2013. Molly is regularly featured on both local and national television for defending some of Kansas City’s most serious cases. Molly will defend ANYONE, with passion and fearlessness.
KIMBERLY M. PYLES
Lead Criminal Investigator
Kim graduated from Central Missouri State University in 2001, majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in Sociology before beginning her career as an investigator. Kim worked as a licensed private investigator with McGough & Associates from 2001 to 2010. Kim then transitioned into criminal work as an investigator with the Missouri State Public Defender's Office from 2010 to 2020. Kim has 20 years of experience in criminal and private investigations, criminal backgrounds, skip tracing, witness interviews, surveillance operations, court testimony, crime scene diagrams, evidence photographs, subpoena service, and finding needles in haystacks. In November 2020, The Hastings Law Firm proudly welcomed Kim to the team as Lead Criminal Investigator.
JANEAL MATHESON
Associate Attorney
After getting her degree in history at the University of Missouri, Janeal obtained a JD from the University of Tulsa Law School. She then spent a year in Toledo, Ohio serving as a VISTA Volunteer. She began her career working for Legal Aid in the Missouri Bootheel and then in Chillicothe, Missouri. She returned to Kansas City and worked for the UAW Legal Services before joining the Public Defender's Office.
Janeal has been the first chair in over 50 jury trials. For the past 20 years, she has represented people in both urban and rural areas and in all types of cases, from traffic tickets to murder.
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