Kathryn Luisa Hansel

Amazing Streetwise Talented Attorney disguised as a librarian that gets beyond superb results and really cares... In her capacity as an overworked public defender in her 4th year of practice, Ms. Hansel went above and beyond for my family and I and changed the way I look at parts of our judicia...l system. She was assigned to me after I was indicted on 44 separate felonies alleging fraud, identity theft, theft over $50K, and other related offenses. I have a several convictions which resulted in prison on my record already, but Ms. Hansel and her team at the Nashville Meteo Public Defender poured over thousands of pages of discovery and negotiated a plea on two of them and 4 years on probation respectively. In the months while the indictment was pending she and the investigators and other support staff located my personal property, retrieved it, and held it in busy office until it could be picked up by family 500 miles away. Then upon release fought to get other seized items back to me from police and got me transferred to home state on even less supervision. I will never forget seeing this very professional yet timid looking attractive woman that seemed more than a decade younger than me introduce herself as my PD... I was scared and anxious to seek out private counsel. Not having the requisite $25,000-$50,000 retainers I was quoted I got to see what a real attorney was capable of when they really cared. I also got to see that she could cuss like a sailor, think like she was on the street, and communicate with me like I really mattered and showed me respect and courtesy I didn't know existed in this context. Thank you very much! I will be forever grateful and humbled.