Jonathan Sternberg
Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, P.C.
Jonathan Sternberg is an appellate lawyer 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. He focuses his practice strictly on appellate litigation. This includes every stage of a case, not only briefing and arguing appeals and related actions, but also advising trial lawyers on procedure and strategy.
Since opening his practice right after his admission to the bar in 2007, Jonathan has been counsel of record in more than 150 reported appellate decisions in a wide array of subjects, successfully pursuing commercial, constitutional, criminal, estate, family, insurance, tax, and tort cases, among many others. The total amount in controversy of all his cases exceeds $700 million. His clients have included everything from Fortune 500® companies to indigent people. He has written more than 300 appellate briefs and presented more than 125 appellate oral arguments, including 16 before the Supreme Court of Missouri. He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, every U.S. Court of Appeals circuit nationwide, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jonathan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© for appellate practice every year since 2015 and in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers every year since 2014 (including in 2016 and 2019-2020 on its "Top 100" list for both states and its "Top 50" list for the Kansas City metropolitan area, the youngest person on either list either year), and has received Martindale-Hubbell®'s highest peer review rating, AV® Preeminent™, every year since 2012. He also is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, was the youngest person Missouri Lawyers Weekly selected to either its "Power 30" list of Missouri's top 30 appellate lawyers in 2021 or as an "Up & Coming Lawyer" in 2009, and was named to the Kansas City Business Journal's "Best of the Bar" list 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. 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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- Listed for Appellate Practice
- The Best Lawyers in America©
- Peer-selected as one of top 4% of attorneys nationwide
- Power 30: Appellate Lawyers
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly
- Listed among "the 30 most powerful appellate attorneys in Missouri"
- Listed
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 5% of lawyers in Missouri and Kansas
- Top 100
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 100 attorneys in Missouri and Kansas combined
- Top 50 Kansas City Super Lawyers
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 50 attorneys in Kansas City metropolitan area
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Member
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- Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society
- Member
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- Activities: Board of Trustees, 2016-2020
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- Eighth Circuit Bar Association
- Member
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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; Appellate Practice Committee (Chair, 2011-2014, 2017; Vice-Chair, 2009-2010, 2020)
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- American Bar Association
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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 Subcommittee (Chair, 2012-2016)
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- Deciding Not to Decide: The Judiciary Act of 1925 and the Discretionary Court
- Journal of Supreme Court History
- Appellate Practice and Procedure in a Nutshell, Liberty, Missouri
- Clay County Bar Association
- Oral Argument Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- The Law of State and Local Smoking Bans, Overland Park, Kansas
- National Business Institute
- 2d Annual Oral Argument Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Basics of Missouri Appellate Procedure, 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.
