Jonathan Sternberg
Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, P.C.
Jonathan Sternberg is an appellate lawyer based in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, representing businesses and individuals in civil and criminal appeals and related matters before state and federal courts nationwide. His practice is focused exclusively on appellate litigation, including briefing and arguing appeals and related actions and advising trial lawyers on procedural and strategic issues at all stages of a case.
Since opening his practice upon his admission to the bar in 2007, Jonathan has served as counsel of record in more than 225 reported appellate decisions across a wide array of legal subjects. He has written over 450 appellate briefs and presented more than 200 appellate oral arguments, including 16 before the Supreme Court of Missouri. The total amount in controversy across all his cases exceeds $1 billion. He is admitted to all state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, as well as every federal appellate court in the United States.
Jonathan has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for appellate practice every year since 2015, and by Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers every year since 2014, including multiple selections to its "Top 100" and "Top 50 Kansas City" lists, often as the youngest lawyer named. He holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell (2012-present). Missouri Lawyers Media has included him on its "Power List" for appellate law since 2021 and its statewide "Top 100 Power List" since 2022, making Jonathan by far the youngest of only 14 people currently named to both of Missouri's major top 100 lawyer lists. Earlier in his career, he was the youngest person - and only solo practitioner - recognized as an "Up & Coming Lawyer" by Missouri Lawyers Weekly in 2009, and was named to the Kansas City Business Journal's "Best of the Bar" in 2013-2016.
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Municipal Law
- Constitutional Law
- Post-judgment proceedings
- Post-conviction remedies
- Writs
- Attorney/judicial discipline
- Free Consultation
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- ID Number: 6331607
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- Kansas
- Kansas Supreme Court
- ID Number: 25902
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- Missouri
- The Missouri Bar
- ID Number: 59533
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- U.S. C. Dist. Illinois
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- U.S. Dist. Colorado
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- U.S. Dist. Kansas
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- U.S. E. Dist. Missouri
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- U.S. N. Dist. Illinois
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- U.S. S. Dist. Illinois
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- U.S. W. Dist. Arkansas
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- U.S. W. Dist. Missouri
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- 1st Circuit
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 3rd Circuit
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- 4th Circuit
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- 5th Circuit
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- 6th Circuit
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- 7th Circuit
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- 8th Circuit
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- 9th Circuit
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- 10th Circuit
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- 11th Circuit
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- D.C. Circuit
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- Federal Circuit
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- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Attorney
- Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, P.C.
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- University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
- J.D.
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- Honors: Dean's List; CALI Awards in Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Interpretation
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- University of Kansas
- B.A. | History
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- Honors: With Honors
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- Metropolitan "Tier 1", Appellate Practice, Kansas City
- The Best Law Firms (R)
- Listed for Appellate Practice
- The Best Lawyers in America(c)
- Peer-selected as one of top 4% of attorneys nationwide
- The Top 100 Power List
- Missouri Lawyers Media
- Top 100 attorneys in Missouri, youngest listed for appellate law
- Listed for Appellate Practice
- The Best Lawyers in America(c)
- Peer-selected as one of top 4% of attorneys nationwide
- The Power List: Appellate Law
- Missouri Lawyers Media
- Listed among Missouri's 30 "most powerful attorneys in appellate law"
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Member
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- Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society
- Member
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- Activities: President, 2023; President-Elect, 2022; Board of Trustees, 2016-2025
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- Eighth Circuit Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: CLE Committee, 2022
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- Kansas Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: Appellate Practice Section
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- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: Board of Directors, 2016; Section of Civil Litigation (President, 2016; President-Elect, 2015); CLE Advisory Committee, 2015-2016, 2020, 2022; Appellate Practice Committee (Chair, 2011-2014, 2017, 2023-2024; Vice-Chair, 2009-2010, 2020-2022, 2025)
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- American Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: Council of Appellate Lawyers; Section of Litigation; Appellate Practice Committee
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- The Missouri Bar
- Member
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- Activities: Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (Vice Chair, 2012-2016); Appellate Practice Committee (Leadership Team, 2024-2025)
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- Deciding Not to Decide: The Judiciary Act of 1925 and the Discretionary Court
- Journal of Supreme Court History
- Nuts and Bolts of Missouri Appellate Practice and Procedure
- numerous times for numerous audiences, most recently in June 2022
- Ethical Issues in Deciding Whether to Appeal
- numerous times for numerous audiences, most recently in June 2022
- Preserving Error for Appeal in Kansas and Missouri Trial Courts, Overland Park, Kansas
- Johnson County Bar Association
- Procedural and Strategic Differences – and Ethical Considerations – Between Civil, Criminal, and Domestic Appeals, Annual David Prager Appellate Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- A Review, Not a Retrial: Perfecting the Record for Appellate Review, Annual David Prager Appellate Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
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Jonathan Sternberg presenting oral argument before the Supreme Court of Kansas in Castleberry v. DeBrot, No. 111105. The Court ultimately unanimously agreed with Jonathan's argument.
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Jonathan Sternberg presenting oral argument before the Supreme Court of Kansas in Biglow v. Eidenberg, No. 112701.
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Jonathan Sternberg presenting oral argument before the Supreme Court of Kansas in Consolver v Hotze, No. 110483. The Court ultimately unanimously agreed with Jonathan's argument.
