About Summer
Summer Masterson-Goethals built her early academic foundation in Springfield. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Missouri State University in 2000. She later returned to high school and acquired her J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in 2011.
Her first legal internships put her interior federal judiciary work. In 2010 she interned at the Federal Defender's Office for the Western District of Missouri. That knowledge exposed her to felony protection practice and court process. After law program she joined Legal Aid of Southwest Missouri in 2011, handling civil things for clients who could not afford private counsel.
The pass from public service to personal practice came some years later. In 2015 she founded Masterson Law. The firm allowed her to shift into a lawyer position the place she may perhaps apply lessons from legal aid and federal defender work to a broader case mix. She has maintained club in local and national expert organizations, which includes the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association and the National Association of Consumer Advocates since 2011. She additionally finished the Missouri Bar Leadership Academy in 2014.
Colleagues describe her background as practical and hands-on. Her early work in legal help required handling an array of civil disputes, from housing and advantages matters to consumer issues. Her time at the Federal Defender's Office added courtroom experience and a familiarity with federal procedure. Those years formed her strategy to case management and client communication.
At Masterson Law she runs a small practice that mixes direct client work with managing the daily operations of the firm. She advocates for individuals in things that often involve shopper safety and civil legal matters. She balances casework with bar association things to do and ongoing expert development.
She is admitted to the Missouri bar and maintains a lively license. In her practice she applies the procedural information gained in federal and civil settings to represent clients in shopper and associated civil things.
Her current practice focuses on shopper safety and civil legal issues.
