JENNIFER L. HASTINGS

JENNIFER L. HASTINGS has the feel of a name attached to a small practice, where the person matters more than a big branded machine. By our assessment, that usually means direct service, narrow focus, and a business that is easier to know by contact than by public profile. The advantage is personal attention and less distance between the work and the client. The drawback is just as real: there is no visible breadth here, and no obvious way to judge it against larger competitors or a fuller service menu. In practice, this sort of company can be clear once you are inside it, but hard to read from the outside. It belongs to the category of modest, individual-scale businesses, and the rating stays low-mid because the public substance is thin.