About Megan
Megan Alfano grew up studying criminal justice and law in Kansas City. She earned a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and stayed there for her J.D. at the UMKC School of Law. She moved from classroom to courtroom quickly and has built a practice that reflects the city’s mixed needs for public defense, family services and legal aid.
Her early career took shape in small firm and nonprofit settings. In 2017 she worked at Kiske Law Office, handling matters typical of a general practice firm. The next year she joined Legal Aid of Western Missouri. That role exposed her to clients who lacked regular access to a lawyer and to the procedural hurdles of civil legal aid.
2019 was a busy year. She served as a contract panel lawyer for the Missouri State Public Defender and volunteered as a lawyer for CASA, stepping into child welfare cases and courtroom advocacy for children. Those volunteer and contract positions ran alongside other legal responsibilities and offered frequent courtroom time. In 2020 she became director at Legal Services for Families of Missouri, a leadership role that brought administrative duties and oversight to her litigator’s skill set.
Alfano holds court-approved credentials in two areas that shape much of her casework. She is certified as a Guardian ad Litem by the Missouri State Bar, which authorizes her to represent the interests of children and other vulnerable parties in family and juvenile proceedings. She is also a Missouri Supreme Court approved mediator, allowing her to conduct mediation in appropriate civil and family disputes. Those certifications pair with her continuing service as a special public defender and with ongoing volunteer work for CASA.
Today she runs Alfano Law Office LLC. The firm handles matters that reflect her background: public defense assignments, children’s advocacy, and family-law issues that often overlap with public benefits and guardianship questions. She maintains memberships in The Missouri Bar, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, and remains active on panels that assign public defense work. She continues to accept appointments and volunteer assignments while operating her private practice.
Her current practice concentrates on family and juvenile cases, court-appointed defense work and mediation in civil and family matters.
