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 on his admission to the bar in 2007, Jonathan has been counsel of record in more than 225 reported appellate decisions in a wide array of subjects. The total amount in controversy of all his cases exceeds $900 million. He has written more than 425 appellate briefs and presented more than 175 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 federal appellate court nationwide.
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 2019-2024 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 in 2016 or 2019-2021, and has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest peer review rating, AV Preeminent, every year since 2012. In 2022 and 2023, Missouri Lawyers Media named Jonathan to its own "Top 100 Power List" of Missouri's top 100 attorneys, the youngest lawyer listed for appellate law, after also naming him to its "Power List" of Missouri's top 30 appellate lawyers in 2021-2024, the youngest lawyer selected in 2021 or 2022. He also was the only solo practitioner (and youngest person) who Missouri Lawyers Weekly selected 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.
- 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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- Attorney
- Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, P.C.
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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
- A Review, Not a Retrial: Perfecting the Record for Appellate Review, Annual David Prager Appellate Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- 21st Century Advocacy: Live and Remote, Annual David Prager Appellate Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Nuts and Bolts of Kansas Appellate Practice and Procedure, Wichita, Kansas
- Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
- Listed for Appellate Practice
- The Best Lawyers in America(c)
- Peer-selected as one of top 4% of attorneys nationwide
- Metropolitan "Tier 1", Appellate Practice, Kansas City
- The Best Law Firms (R)
- Listed
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 5% of lawyers in Missouri and Kansas combined
- Top 50 Kansas City Super Lawyers
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 50 attorneys in Kansas City metropolitan area
- Top 100
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
- Top 100 attorneys in Missouri and Kansas combined
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Member
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- Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society
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- Activities: President, 2023; President-Elect, 2022; Board of Trustees, 2016-2024
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- Eighth Circuit Bar Association
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- Activities: CLE Committee, 2022
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- Kansas Bar Association
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- Activities: Appellate Practice Section
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- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
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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)
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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
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- Activities: Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (Vice Chair, 2012-2016); Appellate Practice Subcommittee (Chair, 2012-2016)
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- 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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- Free Consultation
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Municipal Law
- Constitutional Law
- Post-judgment proceedings
- Post-conviction remedies
- Writs
- Attorney/judicial discipline
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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.