About Richard C
Richard C Simons built a legal identity that combines courtroom work with practical, business-minded roles. He studied psychology as an undergraduate and later earned a law degree. Those two strands — an interest in human behavior and formal legal training — show up in the arc of his career.
Simons attended William Jewell College, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He went on to the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law, earning a J.D. The legal education prepared him for both advocacy and the operational challenges of running legal enterprises.
Early in his professional life Simons moved into a corporate role. In 2010 he served as Chief Legal Officer at Northland Sonic Drive-Ins. That position placed him in-house and exposed him to business operations, compliance and employment issues. Five years later he launched Speedingticketkc.com as an owning partner. That venture signaled a return to client-facing practice and to matters tied to traffic enforcement and local courts. In 2018 he became a senior partner at KC Defense Counsel, a step that formalized his work in criminal and defensive litigation.
Simons is admitted to practice in Missouri and Oklahoma. He belongs to several professional organizations that reflect his practice interests. He has been a member of the National Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 2017 and joined both the National Trial Lawyers and Lawyers of Distinction in 2018. The Order of the Barristers lists him among its members from 2008 onward. Those affiliations sit alongside work in private practice and earlier in-house experience.
Technical certifications are part of Simons’s profile as well. He holds Cisco Networking and Windows Network certifications through ITU. Those credentials have informed work on technical and procedural issues that can arise in modern litigation, such as evidence handling and case management systems.
Colleagues describe Simons as someone who balances courtroom experience with attention to the business and logistical side of practice. He has moved between roles that require different skills: corporate counsel, entrepreneur and trial lawyer. That variety has shaped how he prepares cases, staffs matters and advises clients about practical outcomes.
He continues to work from Kansas City-area practices tied to KC Defense Counsel and Speedingticketkc.com. He represents clients in criminal and traffic-related matters in the jurisdictions where he is licensed and manages the operational side of his practices.
He currently concentrates his practice on criminal defense and traffic-related representations in Missouri and Oklahoma.
