Award-winning appellate lawyer in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri with a wealth of experience representing businesses and individuals in diverse civil and criminal appeals and related matters in state and federal courts nationwide.
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 on appellate litigation at every point in a case, not only briefing and arguing appeals, writs, and related actions, but also advising trial lawyers on procedure and strategy at all stages. Since opening his practice right after being admitted to the bar in 2007, Jonathan has been counsel of record in more than 125 reported appellate decisions in a wide array of subjects, successfully pursuing commercial, constitutional, criminal, estate, family, insurance, tax, and tort cases, among 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 275 appellate briefs and presented more than 125 appellate oral arguments, including 14 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 as the youngest person on its "Top 100" list for both states and "Top 50" list for the Kansas City metropolitan area in both 2016 and 2019, and previously on its "Rising Stars" list from 2010-2013), and has received Martindale-Hubbell®'s highest peer review rating, AV® Preeminent™, every year since 2012. 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.
